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Arizona's Stream Adjudications: Getting to Water Certainty

Stream adjudications are legal proceedings to determine and catalogue who has rights to use water from a river or stream. Arizona's two stream adjudication have been ongoing for decades and parties include cities, towns, tribes, farmers, ranchers, mines, national parks, state parks, homeowners and others. Learn more about the stream adjudications and what it will take for the state to complete them.

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