PRESS STATEMENT ADWR statement in response to Department of Interior’s new Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement By the end of 2023, the Lower Basin will have voluntarily conserved more than 1 million acre-feet in the Colorado River system. This volume is on top of reductions in use mandated by the 2007 Guidelines and the 2019 …

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PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 19, 2023 ARIZONADoug MacEachernArizona Department of Water [email protected] CALIFORNIAJessica NeuwerthColorado River Board of [email protected] NEVADABronson MackSouthern Nevada Water [email protected] Arizona, California and Nevada commit to record-setting conservationto protect the Colorado River Record-setting volumes of Colorado River water are being saved in Lake Mead The Bureau of Reclamation is moving the …

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 11, 2023 Press Release CONTACT: Shauna Evans (602) 771-8079 [email protected] Comment Period for Arizona Water Protection Fund Fiscal Year 2024 Grant Applications Now Open PHOENIX – The Arizona Water Protection Fund* has received grant applications for its fiscal year 2024 funding cycle. Grant applications are now available for public review at …

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 5, 2023 Press Release CONTACT: Doug MacEachern (602) 771-8507 [email protected] Arizona Water Protection Fund Accepting Applications for Fiscal Year 2024 Grant Cycle PHOENIX- The Arizona Water Protection Fund (AWPF) supports projects that develop or implement on-the-ground measures that directly maintain, enhance and restore Arizona’s river and riparian resources. The AWPF Commission …

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Beginning the week of February 27th, 2023, and continuing through April 2023, ADWR field services staff will make an extensive effort to measure water levels in wells in the Northwest Basins Planning Area.

Turning the tables: reporters covering the Colorado River explain their challenges to Colorado River water users

The 2022 Colorado River Water Users Association meetings are setting records for attendees. It has never before sold out. This time, it has. It literally has “sold out” of credentials for media, too. The halls of the Caesar’s Palace vast meeting-room levels are swarming with more media than these meetings ever have seen before. This …

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Incoming Central Arizona Project GM Brenda Burman is kicking off the formal program for the 2022 meetings of the Colorado River Water Users Association with a primer on the rare language of water that come easily to regular attendees, but can be obscure and confusing to newbies to this conference. And with an overflow audience, …

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Beginning the week of December 12, 2022, ADWR field services staff will make an extensive effort to measure water levels in wells in the Phoenix AMA.

Comment Period for Arizona Water Protection Fund Fiscal Year 2023 Grant Applications Now Open

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 7, 2027 Press Release CONTACT: Shauna Evans (602) 771-8079 [email protected] Arizona Water Protection Fund Accepting Applications for Fiscal Year 2023 Grant Cycle PHOENIX- The Arizona Water Protection Fund (AWPF) supports projects that develop or implement on the ground measures that directly maintain, enhance and restore Arizona’s river and riparian resources. The …

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PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                         April 6, 2022 “Appreciation Week” Recognizes Essential Services of Arizona Water Professionals PHOENIX – During the week of April 11-17 Arizona leaders from both within and outside the state’s “water community” will take time during Arizona Water Professionals Appreciation Week to recognize the thousands of water professionals working …

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Beginning the week of February 28, 2022, and continuing for several months, Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) field services staff will make an extensive effort to measure water levels in wells in the Prescott Active Management Area ) and the Verde River Basin.  

Beginning the week of January 1st, 2022, and scheduled to continue for multiple months, Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) field services staff will be making an extensive effort to measure water levels in wells in the Western Planning Area.

Water agencies across Arizona, California and Nevada, together with the Department of the Interior, today announced a historic effort to invest up to $200 million in projects over the next two years to keep the Colorado River’s largest reservoir, Lake Mead, from dropping to critically low levels.