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Pure Liquid Gold: ADEQ presents plan for bolstering state’s supply of purified waterThe recent announcement by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality of its “roadmap” for incorporating recycled water as part of Arizona’s supply of safe, reliable and purified water garnered a lot of headlines. ADEQ’s guiding principles for |
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Buschatzke Tabbed Once Again As An Arizona “Leader Of The Year”ADWR Director Tom Buschatzke has been named by the Arizona Capitol Times as one of Arizona’s “Leaders of the Year” for 2023 in environmental policy. It is the second year in a row that the ADWR Director has been tabbed by the news group for |
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ADWR Director Joins Tribal Leaders In Celebrating Historic Water Rights SettlementADWR Director Tom Buschatzke joined tribal and federal officials on August 30 to help celebrate the Hualapai Tribe’s historic $312 million water rights settlement at the Tribe’s spectacular Grand Canyon West development near Peach Springs. The |
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Getting The Word Out: ADWR Uses A Host Of Media For Keeping The Public InformedPublic agencies that provide direct services to their “customer base” – another way of saying “taxpayers” – have a wide variety of ways to get their service message out to those customers these days. At the Arizona Department of Water Resources, we |
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National Weather Service Forecaster Takes A Look At The Balance Of Our Long, Hot SummerLast week’s edition of Arizona Water News described how weather and climate experts working with the Arizona Drought Inter-agency Coordinating Group, or the ICG, accurately predicted much of the hot and dry conditions impacting the Southwest this |
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Soaring July Temps, A Late Monsoon: The Savvy "ICG" Pros Called It All... In MayDespite what looks to be the hottest July ever by several measures, softball teams in the Phoenix area are toughing it out. Sure, we’ve got these super-hot days, but the kids keep on practicing and playing. Of course, a lot of those practices and |
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Humpback Chub: The Tale Of A Grand Canyon Native Fish SpeciesEmily Higuera is an Environmental Programs Specialist for the Colorado River Management Section. She participates on behalf of the department in a number of programs, including the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program, which focuses on |
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A glossary of the often complex terms describing the amazing nature of ‘groundwater’In a little under two years, hydrologists at the Arizona Department of Water Resources have completed studies of groundwater conditions in two regions at opposite ends of south-central Arizona - the Pinal Active Management Area south and east of |
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Restoration project supported by ADWR’s Water Protection Fund deemed a “great success”In times of severe drought, hydrological success stories can come few and far between, so a report from the U.S. Forest Service – Coconino National Forest about a successful restoration project on the Verde River watershed is welcome news. According |
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First-ever Water Awareness Month festival is on the way!What a difference a year makes! A year ago, all the water talk in the West was about the instability of the Colorado River system, the dangerously low levels that water stored in Lake Mead and Lake Powell were reaching, and about the vital importance |