Speaker Rusty Bowers on Prospects for Water Management in Arizona
Speaker Bowers (far right) visits a lift station with Central Arizona Project board members.
8 | IRRIGATION LEADER | April 2021
Irrigation Leader: Please tell us about your background and what prompted you to run for office. Rusty Bowers: I am a fourth-generation Arizonan. One half of my family began settling up in the White Mountains in St. John’s and went over to Alpine in 1875. After they lost some kids in a really bad winter, my great-grandmother said they needed to move somewhere lower, so they came down irrigationleadermagazine.com
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF RUSTY BOWERS.
R
ussell “Rusty” Bowers has been the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives since 2017. He also previously served in the Arizona Senate from 1997 to 2001 and in the Arizona House of Representatives from 1993 to 1997. In this interview with Irrigation Leader, Speaker Bowers tell us about water management in Arizona, the importance of finding new supplies for the growing Southwest, and the legislation he hopes moves forward this year.
