At a presentation to the Governor’s Water Policy Council on December 2, 2024, the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) announced that it would initiate an informal stakeholder process to guide the development of potential new rules creating an Assured Water Supply “Ag-to-Urban” program. ADWR will hold the first informal stakeholder meeting of this effort on Thursday, January 16, 2025, from 10AM to 12PM. This page will be updated with dates, times, and locations of additional informal stakeholder meetings as this process continues.
Public Stakeholder Meetings
| Title | Date | Meeting Materials | Meeting Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ag-to-Urban: Informal Public Meeting | Wed, Feb 5 2025, 10am | ||
| Ag-to-Urban: Technical Working Group Meeting | Thu, Jan 30 2025, 10am | ||
| Ag-to-Urban: Informal Public Meeting | Thu, Jan 16 2025, 10am | Meeting Recording |
On December 2, 2024, ADWR gave a presentation to the Governor’s Water Policy Council where it announced that it would initiate an informal stakeholder process to guide the development of potential new rules creating an Assured Water Supply “Ag-to-Urban” program. As part of this presentation, ADWR outlined needed guardrails for a successful Ag-to-Urban program. Additionally, ADWR presented an interactive dashboard which stakeholders may use to help guide their understanding of how different variables could shape the impact of an Ag-to-Urban program on groundwater supplies. ADWR has also made the dashboard’s underlying data set publicly available. You can access the agenda for that meeting here, the presentation slides of that meeting here , the dashboard here , and the dashboard dataset here. You can access a video recording of that meeting here.
On June 18, 2024, ADWR gave a presentation to the Governor’s Water Policy Council, in part, on potential concepts of an Ag-to-Urban program as related legislation was being debated at the State Legislature. Ultimately, none of the Ag-to-Urban bills debated during that session were successful. You can access the agenda for that meeting here, the presentation slides here, and the video recording of that meeting here.
Technical Working Group
Technical experts willing to participate in a data-heavy technical working group can join the technical working group email list here.