stock watering; active management areas

Summary

The bill amends Arizona law to give owners of irrigation grandfathered rights the ability to withdraw a small amount of groundwater for domestic or stock‑watering purposes, but only if they were already using it that way in 1980 and no other non‑irrigation right has been issued. The withdrawal is limited to ten acre‑feet per year, must stay on the same land, and can be transferred with the irrigation right. Measured withdrawals are exempt from certain conservation rules, while unmeasured ones are treated as irrigation for reporting.

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