Brian Spicker
President and CEO
Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation

Janice Palmer
Senior Vice President, Government Affairs and Public Policy
Helios Education Foundation

The State of Arizona has released a new 100-year groundwater model for Greater Phoenix, showing that the area’s groundwater is fully allocated. While the model results will not impact cities, towns, and private water providers that have a Designation of an Assured Water Supply (the vast majority of Phoenix-area communities), the model results may have implications for the patterns and rates of new home development.

This explainer takes a look at the updates to the Certificate of Assured Water Supply and how it will impact housing affordability. To ensure long-term water supplies for current residents, the state has imposed limitations on some new housing subdivisions and other types of development.

Access to safe, reliable, affordable drinking water is the foundation of public health, economic opportunity, and quality of life in any community. Yet, significant challenges associated with providing and maintaining this access exist across Arizona, perhaps most acutely on Native American reservations and in small, physically isolated rural communities across the state.

Joseph Garcia
February 14, 2018

Happy Valentine’s Day.

Or should I say, Happy Statehood Day.

It was on this day – 106 years ago on Feb. 14, 1912 – when President William Howard Taft made an honest woman out of the Arizona Territory by making her the 48th state.

Joseph Garcia
January 23, 2019

With every new election cycle, I am asked many questions by many news organizations about the Latino vote, mainly: "Is this the year Latinos make their presence felt at the ballot box?"

Joseph Garcia
March 20, 2019

It’s a new year in politics. As of Jan. 1, there were 3,782,218 people registered to vote in Arizona, according the state Secretary of State’s Office. Perhaps you’re among them.

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