Let's get the Watershed Health Bill a hearing!

Once again, the AZ Sustainable Water Coalition is trying to get the Watershed Health Bill a hearing.

The Bill is HB2357 Watershed health; use; survey (introduced by Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton). This bill defines ecological water needs as "water sufficient to sustain freshwater ecosystems that includes the wildlife habitat and human livelihoods and well-being that depend on these ecosystems." The bill recognizes watershed-health uses as a "beneficial use", allowing severance and transfer of water to the environment, and directs the Department of Water Resources to assess surface waters.

1. Please contact Rep.Gail Griffin (chair of the Natural Resources, Energy and Water Committee) and ask her to give this bill a hearing. Ggriffin@azleg.gov

2. Please contact Speaker of the House- Ben Toma, and ask him to ask Rep. Griffin to hear the bill or assign it to a different committee. Btoma@azleg.gov

3. Please contact Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton and thank her for introducing this bill (again) sstahlhamilton@azleg.gov

You can also email them thru this az legislature website: https://www.azleg.gov/MemberRoster/?body=H

Sierra Club's Enviro Day at the Capitol is this Thursday 1/25  (8:30am-2pm) "Save Water, Save Life" is the theme. If you're in the area - stop by the Sustainable Water Network table and Sustainable Tucson's water committee table.