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NEWS: Colorado River Indian Tribes Reach Water Rights Settlement
The Colorado River Indian Tribes reached a water rights settlement with the State last week! Read to learn more.
AFN Action Alert: Protect Arizona’s Sacred and Public Lands
AFN Action Alert: Urge our lawmakers to reject legislation that threatens to undermine protection of Arizona’s public and sacred lands! Take action to protect Creation right here in Arizona.
Arizona Water Facts
Read all about water sourcing and use in Arizona, from the first in a series of education posts about LAMA’s policy priorities! Get up to date on the issues we are advocating on, including perspective from our social statements and data.
RTS For the Week of 3/26
Have you missed an RTS Update? Read through our mid-season round up of the most important bills in all of our priority areas!
Northeastern Tribes Close in on Water Settlement
This World Water Day, read this update about the recently introduced water rights settlement between the Navajo Nation, the State of Arizona, and other tribes.
RTS For The Week of 3/12
Read our weekly RTS alert for the 2024 Legislative Session. This week we are looking at a water bill and two SNAP bills. We encourge support for HB2024 and opposition to HB2502 and HB2503.
Request to Speak Alerts for the Week of 3/5
Read our weekly RTS alert for the 2024 Legislative Session. This week we are looking at a voting bill! We oppose HB 2547.
2024 World Water Day Toolkit
World Water Day is observed each year on March 22 to promote the responsible use of water and access to safe water for everyone. 2024 Toolkit included.
Request to Speak Alert for the Week of 2/20
Read our weekly RTS alert for the 2024 Legislative Session. This week we are looking at water and housing, encouraging support for HB 2815 & 2056, and opposition for 2781.
2024 Policy Priorities Primer
Get an in-depth look at LAMA’s 2024 Policy Priorities and how these issues affect our state.
'Arizona’s water and crops belong in Arizona': New legislation could crack down on foreign governments using Arizona water
Rep. Ruben Gallego's Domestic Water Protection Act of 2023 would levy taxes on foreign governments growing water-intensive crops in drought-stricken areas.
View documentary film free of charge: The Ants & the Grasshopper
This documentary, ten years in the making, weaves together the most urgent themes of our times: climate change, gender and racial inequality, the gaps between the rich and the poor, and the ideas that groups around the world have generated in order to save the planet. Free viewing through Spirit in the Desert Climate Theater.
Creation Care Ambassadors and All of Us Together
This is your opportunity to engage your community, both at church and at large, on climate care. As an ambassador, you will be connected with people as passionate about the climate and the gospel as you are while being equipped with tools to help you turn your passion into action.
In Arizona Water Ruling, the Hopi Tribe Sees Limits on Its Future
Arizona's unique method for awarding water to tribes was supposed to open up economic possibilities beyond farming for the Hopi Tribe. Instead, the tribe says it has dashed their dreams of building a thriving homeland.
Water Update from Arizona Agenda
After decades of policies encouraging growth and farming at all costs, there are signs that Arizona may finally be coming to grips with its status as a dry state. —Hank Stephenson, Arizona Agenda
How Arizona Stands Between Tribes and Their Water
As it negotiates water rights with tribes, Arizona goes to unique lengths to extract concessions that limit tribes’ opportunities for growth and economic development, according to a ProPublica and High Country News investigation.
ELCA Social Message: Earth’s Climate Crisis
The ELCA’s newest social message, adopted on Thursday, April 20, 2023 is entitled Earth’s Climate Crisis, a message on climate care. This project was authorized in light of the grim contemporary situation affecting our global home and the need for fresh action on the part of this church.
Before Western States Suck the Colorado River Dry, We Have One Last Chance to Act
The Interior Department last summer dropped a bomb on the seven states that depend upon the Colorado River for water. By Bruce Babbitt for New York Times Opinion. Mr. Babbitt, the secretary of the Interior Department from 1993 to 2001 in the Clinton administration, is a former governor of Arizona (1978 to 1987).