Arizona Best Management Practices Agricultural Water Conservation Program

In 2002, the State of Arizona established an innovative Best Management Practices program designed to conserve increasingly scarce water resources while reducing soil erosion, improving soil tilth and productivity, and reducing nutrient transmissions to surface water and groundwater supplies and agricultural emissions to the atmosphere. The purpose of this project is to greatly increase producer enrollment and add sophisticated performance evaluation, impact analysis, producer outreach and technology transfer components, based on motivating participation through the use of incentives.