Arizona water law

Question 1

Defined areas within Arizona where water management programs, such as restrictions governing groundwater used, are in place

Answer 1

Active management area (AMA)

Question 2

The standard required from developers outside of an Active Management Area (AMA); if adequate water supply cannot be demonstrated, the developer must’ve closed this fact and all advertising and promotional material

Answer 2

Adequate water supply

Question 3

The state department created in 1980 to secure a long-term dependable water supplies for Arizona’s communities; enforces the states groundwater code and surface water rights

Answer 3

Arizona department of water resources (ADWR)

Question 4

Established in 1980 and establish the Arizona Department of water resources

Answer 4

Arizona groundwater management code

Question 5

The demonstration that sufficient water of adequate Quality will be continuously available to satisfy the needs of the proposed development for at least 100 years; required from developers within an active management area (AMA)

Answer 5

Assured water supply

Question 6

In the AMA’s in Maricopa, Tima, and penal county’s, CAGRD is responsible for replenishing ground water using cap water

Answer 6

Central Arizona Groundwater replenishment District

Question 7

A 336 mile canal/aqueduct that diverts water from the California river for delivery to central and southern Arizona; managed by the central Arizona water conservation district (CAWCD)

Answer 7

Central Arizona project (CAP)

Question 8

In water rights law, the legal doctrine that the first person to take a quantity of water from a water source for beneficial use (agriculture, industrial, household) has the right to continue to use that quantity of water for that purpose (first in time is first in right)

Answer 8

Doctrine of prior appropriation

Question 9

Water that has been collected in a sanitary sewer for subsequent treatment in a facility that is regulated

Answer 9

Effluent

Question 10

A well that has a maximum pump capacity of 35 gallons per minute and is used to withdraw ground water only for non-irrigation purposes, including watering less than 2 acres of grass or garden

Answer 10

Exempt well

Question 11

Under the Arizona groundwater code, the right to use ground water to irrigate specific acres of land that were irrigated with ground water between 1975-1980

Answer 11

Irrigation grandfathered rights

Question 12

Areas identified by the Arizona groundwater code where irrigation acreage is restricted

Answer 12

Irrigation non-expansion area (INA)

Question 13

Drawing more ground water than is being replaced

Answer 13

Overdraft

Question 14

A completed water right, appurtenant to the ownership of the land, this remains valid for 40 years and may be renewed

Answer 14

Perfected surface water right

Question 15

The gradual keeping or sudden sinking of the earth surface in response to natural or man-made causes

Answer 15

Subsidence

Question 16

In Arizona, a grandfathered water right that remains with the land but could be used for non-irrigation purposes

Answer 16

Type I non-irrigation right

Question 17

In Arizona, a grandfathered water right that may be sold separately from the land

Answer 17

Type II non-irrigation right

Question 18

The natural level at which ground is saturated, be at above or below the surface of the ground

Answer 18

Water table