Arizona Municipal Water Users Ass'n v. Arizona Department of Water Resources

OPINION

TOCI, Judge.

This appeal involves a dispute between the Arizona Department of Water Resources (“the Department”) and the Arizona Municipal Water Users Association (“the Association”), a non-profit corporation composed of a number of Arizona cities and towns, 1 as to how the Groundwater Code is to be interpreted.

According to a groundwater management plan authorized by statute, the Department establishes a municipal water provider’s total gallons per capita per day (“GPCD”) requirement. This GPCD requirement limits the total amount of water that such provider is legally entitled to…