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In this September photo, Army Assistant Secretary for Civil Works R.D. James, left, and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler shake hands after signing the repeal of the Water of the United States rule. They unveiled a replacement Thursday. (Kailey Broussard/Cronkite News)

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Clean-water rules unveiled Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency could remove the vast majority of Arizona’s waterways from federal oversight, a change environmentalists call bad news in a region where water is “super precious.”

By Jessica Myers, Cronkite News January 27, 2020