It’s official. The Willcox basin is now an active management area (AMA) and there is a prohibition on any new irrigation.

It's the first time since 1980 that Arizona officials have used their authority to designate an active management area.

Everyone agrees the Willcox basin is in decline, but the folks living and farming there cannot reach a consensus on how to ...

Governor Katie Hobbs announced the designation of the Willcox Groundwater Basin as Arizona’s newest Active Management Area, ...

The state's water agency announced Friday it will usher in groundwater pumping limits and regulation to the Willcox Basin by formally designating a state-run Active Management Area there.

Governor Katie Hobbs and the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) announced historic measures today to secure the ...

Residents acknowledge that groundwater levels are dropping, but they say a state regulatory plan is not the right solution.

For the first time ever, Arizona’s water agency established a groundwater protection zone called an Active Management Area. It covers the Wilcox basin in southeastern Arizona.

This newly designated AMA at the Willcox Basin will bring much-needed relief to Arizonans and protect their water for generations to come," the governor said. The Willcox Basin AMA will be the seventh ...

Despite community protests, Arizona designated its seventh groundwater active management area in the southeast corner of the state when state Water Resources Director Tom Buschatzke made the sole ...

(KGUN) — It’s been one week since the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) held its public hearing in Willcox, about possibly implementing an active management agreement (AMA ...

Two years ago, residents in the eastern corner of Cochise County voted on whether they wanted an AMA in the Douglas and Willcox basin; only the Douglas AMA was approved. The Willcox basin could ...