Vote Yes on this bill if you want to allow tightly limited, metered groundwater transfers from McMullen Valley to cities and La Paz County, require studies and monthly reporting, charge export fees to fund local well and tank upgrades, expand home-sale water disclosures, and let districts build wells and standpipes with narrow eminent domain.

Organizations that support this bill may include municipal water providers in active management areas, regulated water utilities, county governments seeking export-fee revenue for local well assistance, the Arizona Water Banking Authority, and improvement districts that plan standpipes and water hauling.

Vote No on this bill if you want to stop new groundwater exports from rural basins, avoid potential declines in local wells, block any eminent domain for export infrastructure, and keep cities from increasing reliance on imported groundwater.

Organizations that oppose this bill may include rural groundwater conservation groups, residents and agricultural organizations in McMullen Valley and La Paz County concerned about aquifer declines, and property-rights advocates wary of eminent domain for well sites.