For Star subscribers: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes accuses the Department of Water Resources of not doing its job to protect groundwater as required by law.
PHOENIX — State Attorney General Kris Mayes is accusing the Arizona Department of Water Resources of not doing its job to protect groundwater.
People are also reading… Neither Buschatzke nor Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who agreed to keep him on as the state water director after she succeeded Republican Gov. Doug Ducey in January, would comment. Mayes has said she believes the use of state-leased farmland, and the withdrawal of groundwater there, are illegal.
As to the use of the state plane, Mayes said it is a"long-standing practice for elected officials to take reporters along on trips like this.''Even as that dispute with Hobbs simmers, Mayes said she did get a victory of sorts. She said she got the state Land Department, also under the governor's control, to withdraw its request that ADWR allow Fondomonte to drill two new high-capacity wells in La Paz County.
She said hedge funds and"perhaps other financial firms and speculators'' have started to purchase land near the Colorado River and the water rights that go with the properties. These owners"are anticipated to seek to transfer those water rights off-river," she said.
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