[Editors's note] This article is about Arizona - at first blush. But eventually, it leads to the Colorado River, which leads to you-know-where. And it involves the connectivity between surface flows and groundwater that western communities keep trying to ignore. So, just as water flows downstream, problems such as the one in this article, will utimately arrive at our doorstep. http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0124thur1-24.html