Gov. Katie Hobbs and state water regulators have announced the first transfer of groundwater rights from agricultural use to new housing under the state’s new “Ag-to-Urban" Groundwater Conservation Program, which will allow the construction of over 800 homes in Buckeye.

The historic program, which was created through long-negotiated bipartisan legislation, creates a path for converting farmland to subdivisions in groundwater-reliant areas of the state, like the West Valley, where water availability has been a limiting factor for growth.

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