"The Price of Uncertainty" explores how the ongoing Gila Adjudication creates ambiguity around water rights, posing challenges for businesses, communities, and responsible water planning across Arizona, as decision-makers increasingly prioritize water availability, reliability, and long-term sustainability when evaluating investment sites.

This analysis reveals Arizona's unsustainable groundwater use, jeopardizing communities, ecosystems, and future growth, and emphasizes that bold action and honest reckoning are needed to change course.

In this reflection, land use expert Grady Gammage Jr.

Examining the Colorado River shortage and what it means for water conservation, residential water users, groundwater pumping, utility costs, urban growth, new water supplies, and water rights.

This report examines how Arizona's 100-year assured water supply requirement, particularly through the Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District (CAGRD), has shaped urban growth and water policy over the past 25 years, outlining reforms to strengthen the state's water future amidst CAGRD's long-term sustainability challenges.

A groundbreaking report from ASU's Just Energy Transition Center and the Kyl Center for Water Policy inventories the water footprint of coal-fired power plants and mines across the Colorado River Basin, providing crucial data for future energy and water decisions.

Arizona's new groundwater restrictions, designed to safeguard water for the future, are impacting housing costs and availability in Greater Phoenix amidst an existing affordability crisis. This explainer examines solutions for local governments to find a balance.

Our new report introduces "Floating Pools," a bold concept for reserved water storage on the Colorado River designed to reduce conflict and avoid litigation between Upper and Lower Basin states, laying the foundation for a durable post-2026 management framework.

This analysis provides context on Arizona's 1995 surface water law amendments and their lasting impact on water adjudication, following years of legal battles that culminated in a Supreme Court ruling deeming most unconstitutional, as lawmakers revisited these rights in 2020.

From power and semiconductors to turf, beverages, and data centers, our new report offers a data‑driven look at how major industries use water in Central Arizona—and what those patterns mean for long‑term sustainability and planning.