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What water arguments are actually about

A report answers these for a particular square mile. These pages answer them in general: what the question really is, which Arizona records hold the answer, and what a report does with them. Every statute is cited and every figure says where it came from and when it was counted.

  1. 01 Whether supply is assured

    Which supply rule reaches this ground

    Whether lots here can be sold depends on a determination somebody has to hold, and which determination that is depends on where the land sits.

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    120,368 wells inside an AMA
  2. 02 Wells

    What a well registration does not tell you

    Arizona’s well registry is deep, public, and full of rows that do not mean what they appear to.

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    51,756 cancelled or superseded
  3. 03 How the report is built

    Why the boundaries are the hard part

    A due diligence report is not a query against one agency. These are the places where that difference is actually made.

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    62,824 carry no depth at all

These are the general answers.

Which of them applies to a particular eighty acres is a different question, and it is settled by the records filed against that ground rather than by anything on this page. Put in an address and the free report says what the record holds there.

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Not legal advice, a title opinion, or an appraisal. These pages describe how Arizona records and law work in general; a decision about a particular property should be made with the underlying documents.