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Year
1990
Title
Western Water Transfers: Public Interest Impacts
CWCB Section
Interstate & Federal
Author
Larry Morandi
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Examination of the public interest impacts of western water transfers
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<br />Shifting to the potential economic impacts associated with the trOJ/.Sfer of water, a <br />September 1989 study by economic and policy analysts at the University of Arizona <br />calcualted that La paz County would lose 17 employees for each 1,000 acres of farmland <br />retired. <br /> <br />Of these, 10.5 are direct or indirect impacts and 6.5 are income or population <br />induced. Of the 10.5 direct and indirect jobs, 65 percent are in farming and <br />16 percent are in agricultural services.53 <br /> <br />The same study projected the loss in La paz County personal income at $363,000, <br />with 75 percent of that figure attributable to direct and indirect impacts. Assuming 20,000 <br />acres of irrigated land is eventually retired, the employment loss would be 340 jobs (or <br />nearly 7 percent of the county's 1987 work force); the reduction in personal income would <br />represent a 4.5 percent loss. Including the reduction in property tax base, the University of <br />Arizona researchers estimated a total loss in revenue for La paz County government of just <br />over 3 percent from the retirement of 20,000 acres of farmland.54 <br /> <br />The Arizona Legislature has considered several measures in recent years to try to <br />incorporate public interest criteria into water transactions. Until the 1991 session, the most <br />comprehensive package of proposals came before the 1989 session as House Bill 2666. The <br />major provisions included: <br />(1) placing one-half of the state's land into "closed basins" from which <br />groundwater could not be transferred to active management areas; <br />(2) designating other areas as "reserved basins" from which up to 65 percent of <br />the groundwater could be transferred; <br />(3) limiting to 4 acre-feet/acre the volume of water that could be transferred <br />from irrigated land in reserved basins to AMAs, and 3 acre-feet/acre from <br />desert land; <br /> <br />25 <br />
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