The Colorado River Indian Tribes reached a water rights settlement with the State last week! Read to learn more.

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.

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.

Have you missed an RTS Update? Read through our mid-season round up of the most important bills in all of our priority areas!

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.

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.

Read our weekly RTS alert for the 2024 Legislative Session. This week we are looking at a voting bill! We oppose HB 2547.

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.

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.

Get an in-depth look at LAMA’s 2024 Policy Priorities and how these issues affect our state.

Rep. Ruben Gallego's Domestic Water Protection Act of 2023 would levy taxes on foreign governments growing water-intensive crops in drought-stricken areas.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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).