By Caitlin Sievers | AZ Mirror
A group of home builders is suing the Arizona Department of Water Resources for imposing what they claim are unlawful assured water supply restrictions that have halted some new home construction and caused them financial hardship.
The conservative Goldwater Institute on Jan. 22 filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court against ADWR and its Director Thomas Buschatze and on behalf of the Home Builders Association of Central Arizona. The lawsuit asks the court to permanently block two water supply rules that the Home Builders Association says were illegally adopted without public input and don’t align with state law.
Home Builders Association CEO Jackson Moll blamed Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, whose office oversees ADWR, for what he called “a deeply inaccurate and flawed claim that Arizona is running out of groundwater.”