Water?!? Why would the AZLege address AZ's water crisis when there are "red meat for the base" issues to address?

From KJZZ, written by Ron Dungan -

Rural Arizona groundwater bill languishes in the Legislature

A bill to help rural Arizona manage its groundwater has stalled in the Arizona House.

For most of rural Arizona, groundwater use remains much as it did in the frontier — unmanaged, a race to the bottom in which the person who drills the deepest well wins.

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“You know once the Legislature kind of gets through some of the stuff it’s working on right now hopefully they’ll turn their attention back to water, and we may see movement, and we’re hopeful that people are having those discussions on how we can do this. Because we need it. Communities are crying out for help,” {Audubon Southwest's Haley} Paul said.

She says that {Representative Regina} Cobb has introduced the legislation in the past but it has yet to gain traction.

Given that Cobb has already updated her LinkedIn profile to reflect her new gig as ED of the AZ Dental Association and that her water bill, HB2661 (I think), died without a hearing, I'm guessing that water isn't her highest priority.

The bill (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) could come back as a striker or could be heard in her committee, which can still meet with the permission of the speaker, but Paul (and the rest of Arizona) shouldn't count on any members of the legislative majority doing their jobs - I expect this legislature to adjourn soon, if not this week, and any such measure would still have to go through the entire process in the State Senate.

In other words, probably not gonna happen.