Water rights in Arizona
Arizona isn't on the map yet.
Surface-water filings and well registrations sit in two separate ADWR systems that mean different things, and most groundwater use is not a right in the appropriative sense.
Look up a right with the state: Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR)
Arizona at a glance
- Surface water
- Prior appropriation under the 1919 Public Water Code
- Groundwater
- Governed by the 1980 Groundwater Code
- Active Management Areas
- Eight, including Phoenix, Tucson and Prescott
- Administering agency
- ADWR, created by the 1980 code