Water restrictions in Pinal County, AZ — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Pinal County has no county-wide day-of-week outdoor watering ban, but most of the county sits in the Pinal Active Management Area under state groundwater law. ADWR meters and reports non-exempt wells, and has declared groundwater cannot support new subdivisions relying on it.
Water in Pinal County is governed mainly by the Arizona Groundwater Management Act, not county landscaping rules. The Pinal AMA is one of Arizona's original four Active Management Areas, administered by the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR). In an AMA, all non-exempt wells must have an accurate flow meter and file an annual Water Withdrawal and Use Report. ADWR's 2019-2020 modeling found unmet groundwater demand of over 8 million acre-feet across 100 years, so it will not approve new assured-water-supply applications relying on Pinal groundwater. Day-to-day outdoor watering schedules, when they exist, are set by individual cities and water providers, not the county.
Well-metering and annual-reporting violations are enforced by ADWR under the Groundwater Code; city watering-schedule fines are set by each municipality.
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