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Wells around Arizona may be drawing water at ‘unsustainable’ rates

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By Dom DiFurio

Wednesday, April 23, 2014
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State officials regularly monitor hundreds of water wells in five ''active management areas'' in the state. But they cover just part of the state, and experts worry that wells outside those areas, public and private, are drawing water from the aquifer at unsustainable rates. Cronkite Investigative reporter Dom DiFurio has the story.

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