A system of pipes, canals or other works within a municipal provider’s service area which are owned and operated by the provider to collect, store, treat or deliver water for non-irrigation use.

This means a city, town, private water company or irrigation district that supplies water for non-irrigation use A.R.S. §45-454(M3).

A non-residential facility that has a water-intensive landscaped area in excess of 10,000 square feet and that has landscaping planted and maintained after January 1, 1990 or bodies of water, other than bodies of water used primarily for swimming purposes, filled and maintained after January 1, 1990, or both. The following facilities are excluded from this definition: schools, parks, cemeteries, golf courses, common areas of housing developments and public recreational facilities. 

A municipal provider that begins serving more than 250 ac-ft of water for non-irrigation use during a calendar year after the date of adoption of the 4MP. 

A well for which a Notice of Intent to Drill or a permit is required pursuant to this article or which is drilled pursuant to a permit issued under section 45-834.01. A.R.S. § 45-591(2).

For a calendar year, an area of land planted with a warm-season grass species that was not planted with any warm-season grass species during the preceding calendar year.

This is any well, including a recovery well, that does not qualify as an exempt well or a replacement well. A.R.S. § 45-2701(3). A non-exempt well is a well having a pump with a maximum capacity of more than thirty-five gallons per minute which is used to withdraw groundwater.

A calf, heifer, mature dry cow, bull, or steer that is present on-site at a dairy operation and receives water through the dairy operation's watering system. 

A person who is supplied water by a municipal provider for a non-irrigation use other than a residential use.

Total water requirements to produce a crop divided by the total quantity of water actually applied to that crop during one growing season.

A well which is not equipped with either a cap or a pump. A.A.C. R12-15-801(18).

For a calendar year, an area of land planted with any cool-season grass species that grows over a dormant warm-season grass species during the fall-winter period.

ADWR maintains a registry, it does not certify legal well ownership. Wells are usually in the name of the landowner where a well resides. When the landowner or well owner changes a 55-71A Request to Change Well Information form must be filed so that the well record remains current and accurate. A.R.S. § 45-593(C).

A series of openings in a casing, made either before or after installation of the casing, to permit the entrance of water into the well. A.A.C. R12-15-801(19).

This is a well that is designed and drilled for the purpose of monitoring water levels within a specific depth interval. A.A.C. R12-15-801(20).

A commercially manufactured watertight unit or device designed for attachment to a steel well casing which permits discharge from the well below the land surface and allows access into the well casing while preventing contaminants from entering the well. A.A.C. R12-15-801(21). For more information, please view this diagram of a pitless adaptor.

Water whose chemical, physical, biological, or radiological integrity has been degraded through the artificial or natural infusion of chemicals, radionuclides, heat, biological organisms, or mineralogical or other extraneous matter. A.A.C. R12-15-801(22).

Poor quality groundwater withdrawal permits are permits issued pursuant to A.R.S. § 45-516 to non-irrigation users to withdraw poor quality groundwater if the director determines that the groundwater to be withdrawn because of its quality has no other beneficial use at the present time and that the withdrawal of such groundwater is consistent with the management plan.  A.R.S. § 45-516. 

Either: a) A large-scale metal mining and processing facility that does not qualify as a pre-1985 metal mining facility, including any expanded or modified portion of the facility, or b) Any expanded or modified portion of a pre-1985 metal mining facility if the expansion or modification includes one or more new tailings impoundments, new mill circuits, or new leaching facilities, and was not substantially commenced as of December 31, 1984.

A water-intensive landscaped area or a low water use landscaped area that was neither in existence nor was substantially commenced as of December 31, 1991.

A water-intensive landscaped area or a low water use landscaped area that was either in existence or was substantially commenced as of December 31, 1984.

A process by which a grout is confined within the borehole or casing of a well by the use of retaining plugs, packers, or a displacing fluid by which sufficient pressure is applied to drive the grout into and within the annular space or interval to be grouted. A.A.C. R12-15-801(23).

"Beneficial uses" includes irrigation, stock watering, industrial, mining, domestic, and many other uses. The use of groundwater must be "reasonable" and A.R.S. 45-602 states that "Groundwater which has been withdrawn shall not be allowed to waste." Flowing wells must be capped if the groundwater is not being put to use, and wells, pumps, and piping must be "constructed and maintained so as to prevent the waste of groundwater."

"Recipient" means a person who receives in lieu water for use at a groundwater savings facility.

Definition as effluent in A.R.S. § 45-101.