Arizona Water Co. v. Arizona Department of Water Resources

OPINION

FERNANDEZ, Judge.

Arizona Water Company appeals from the judgment of the trial court affirming the decision of appellee Arizona Department of Water Resources (DWR) denying its 35 applications for Type 2 non-irrigation grandfathered water rights under the Groundwater Code, Title 45, Chapter 2, 14 A.R.S. Arizona Water contends that DWR wrongly interprets the code and that its interpretation results in an unconstitutional “taking” of its wells without compensation and creates a constitutional conflict between DWR’s powers and those of the Arizona Corporation Commission. We find no merit to…