Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, who like Babbitt supported the 1993 law when it passed, now calls the groundwater district it created “the weakest link” in the state’s entire water ...

The most recent comes from former Arizona Gov. and ex-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. He says future master planned community developers should be required to find and buy their own renewable ...

Later, she sat next to then-Gov. Bruce Babbitt when he and the state’s warring water interest groups negotiated the compromises that made the 1980 law possible. Then, in the 1980s, she was first ...

Literature promoting the SaddleBrooke Ranch development west of Oracle touts feature after feature — high Sonoran Desert terrain with beautiful mountain views, “multimillion-dollar country ...

Gov. Bruce Babbitt, a Democrat, appointed O’Connor to the Arizona Court of Appeals in 1979. “Back in 1979 when she applied for a vacancy on the Arizona Court of Appeals, I was not aware of her ...

A “disconnect” in water-management practices risks draining many of Arizona’s aquifers, an ASU study recently warned. The study referred to the fact that when groundwater is pumped in ...

Bruce Babbitt and President Bill Clinton. "After the fight between Tucson and Phoenix over who would get the first medical school, he was able to see two medical campuses in this state ...

WASHINGTON — It may not be surprising that an “aquatic desert” turtle faces long odds in life, but environmentalists and biologists still welcomed this week’s endangered species ...

To authors of a new, highly critical study, Arizona’s system of groundwater management encourages urban sprawl. But to an official and lobbyist for a homebuilders group, the system encourages ...