Mr. Breedlove focuses his practice in environmental and natural resources. His previous experience includes managing the natural resource programs for the Arizona State Land Department, serving as legislative liaison for the Arizona Department of Water Resources, and as an attorney at Squire Patton Boggs. Mr. Breedlove has worked closely with ranchers and farmers to address resource management concerns including water availability, cultural resources, grassland restoration, invasive species, and environmental contamination. Mr. Breedlove has represented mining companies, land developers, private water and energy utility businesses, government agencies, and investment firms while in private practice, primarily on water resource planning and development matters.

 Mr. Burnside covers water rights and water quality as part of a broad-based environmental and natural resources law practice at Snell & Wilmer. Mr. Burnside regularly counsels and represents significant water interests in the State of Arizona, with a particular focus on mining and energy. He has extensive experience litigating contested water rights claims in Arizona’s Gila River General Stream Adjudication, including multiple arguments and trials before the Special Water Master. Mr. Burnside has in-depth experience with the complex legal and technical issues surrounding Arizona water rights at the intersection between groundwater and surface water.

Joan Card’s principal focus on water quality matters, including surface water quality standards and permitting, groundwater regulation and cleanup, and safe drinking water regulation and compliance. She advises and represents clients in permitting and enforcement actions under the Clean Water Act–including the section 402 (NPDES) and 404 (dredge and fill) permitting programs, the Safe Drinking Water Act. She has significant experience working with municipalities facing environmental legacy soil, ground, and source water impacts from industrial activity, ranging from century-old hard-rock mining impacts to more recent challenges resulting from the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. Joan advises clients and colleagues working to address the challenges and opportunities around water quality and water resource management, watershed health, and water infrastructure planning, finance, and development.

Her experience includes serving as an Assistant Attorney General in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the Arizona Office of the Attorney General where she represented the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality in administrative and other environmental enforcement litigation. She went on to serve as an Attorney Advisor in the Phoenix Field Solicitor’s Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior where she counseled the Bureau of Reclamation’s three Lower Colorado River offices on water and natural resource matters before serving as Director of the ADEQ Water Quality Division. Joan also has also managed the environmental regulatory affairs program for Park City, UT and served as a Senior Policy Advisor at the Region 8 Office of the EPA in Denver, CO.

Mr. Decker represents mining and other industry sectors in Arizona (and surrounding states) with respect to various state and federal-based water quality and mine reclamation and closure programs, including the aquifer protection permit program, Arizona’s pollutant discharge elimination system permit program, impaired water determinations and listings, development and implementation of total maximum daily load requirements, development of surface and aquifer water quality standards, and state certification of federal water quality permits/approvals. He participates actively as a member of the Arizona Mining Association and Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and he lobbies federal and state governmental agencies on water quality statutory, regulatory, and policy-based issues to the benefit of industry in Arizona. He is a fifth generation native of Arizona, having spent his early years (until college) in the northeastern Arizona town of Snowflake while working on his parents’ farm and cattle ranch. 

Mr.Dixon along with his litigation practice, he advises clients on water law issues. This includes helping clients in various industries, ranging from developers to mines, with issues relating to water rights, supply and transfer.

Mr. Larson is a faculty fellow in the Center for Law and Global Affairs, and the Center for Law, Science, and Innovation. He is also a senior research fellow with the Kyl Center for Water Policy at ASU’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy. Professor Larson’s research and teaching interests are in property law, administrative law, and environmental and natural resource law, in particular, domestic and international water law and policy. 

Professor Larson’s research focuses on the impact of technological innovation on water rights regimes, in particularly transboundary waters, and on the sustainability implications of a human right to water. He works on dispute resolution and improved processes in water rights adjudications in Arizona and the Colorado River Basin with the Kyl Center for Water Policy. He is the Principal Investigator on a USAID-funded applied research project improving water supplies for refugee host communities in Lebanon and Jordan. Professor Larson was a visiting professor and Fulbright Scholar at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, a PLuS Alliance visiting fellow with the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, a Lady Davis Fellow and visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Just Add Water: Solving the World’s Problems Using its Most Precious Resource (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Professor Larson also practiced environmental and natural resource law with law firms in Arizona, focusing on water rights, water quality, and real estate transactions.

Ms. McKenna, PG is a principal hydrogeologist at Montgomery & Associates, a water resources consulting firm headquartered in Tucson. Juliet helps clients in the municipal, tribal, and nonprofit sectors navigate challenging waters through regulatory and policy guidance, water portfolio planning, and hydrogeologic investigations. She is a frequent speaker on Arizona water issues for community groups. She is a member of the City of Tucson Citizen’s Water Advisory Committee, Chair of the Water Resources Committee of AZ Water, co-founder of Arizona Water Professionals Appreciation Week, and a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center.