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Technology changes. The only agriculture left in Arizona after about 20 years will be Indian agriculture,” he says, “because they do have the waterrights, they do have the land.” He’s not sure it was worth it, especially because the government does not fund the upkeep of new systems. The jury’s still out,” he says.
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But the valley’s irrigation outlook is dire: Water withdrawn by wells exceeds the amount of snowmelt refilling aquifers, and there are more claims to waterrights than there is water in streams. This legal assistance project paired farmers with law students to formalize verbal water-sharing agreements into bylaws.
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