Arizona Water Resource Vol. 15 No. 6 (July-August 2007)

Abstract

Recently passed legislation will allow Cochise County voters to create a special water management district on the upper San Pedro River as part of a plan to preserve its flow. The legislation has varied significance. Many in the environmental community view the new law as first and foremost a river-preservation effort; others see the bill as representing a breakthrough in the state's ongoing effort to adopt a rural water management strategy. Either way most would agree that the legislation is certainly timely, addressing critical problems in need of solution, both river preservation and rural water management.