ADEQ announced on July 9 its plan to release the draft rule for the Advanced Water Purification (AWP) Program.

The statewide group of stakeholders met to discuss reforms considered during the recently concluded session of the State Legislature.  

Monsoon Awareness Week – the annual effort by state, local and federal agencies to prepare the public for these awesome, often dangerously powerful storm patterns – is nearly upon us.

It wasn’t exactly the news anyone wanted to hear, but the West’s two-year snowpack party looks like it may be coming to an end for a while.

The Department of Interior signed a new (ROD) to implement the Lower Basin’s commitment to conserve 3 million acre-feet to address elevations in Lakes Powell and Mead through 2026.

The Arizona Water Protection Fund Commission selected a project sponsored in part by our sister agency, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality in 2022.

Arizona’s Governor and ADWR Director joined with the Colorado River Indian Tribes in signing documents implementing an agreement allowing the tribes to market portions of their Colorado River allocation to water users off-reservation.

ADWR and our 30-plus water-conserving partner organizations set up some three dozen booths demonstrating the myriad aspects of water conservation in an arid climate.

Governor Katie Hobbs on March 25 signed House Bill 2016, extending the deadline for water users in the newly created Douglas AMA to submit their grandfathered groundwater right applications to the Arizona Department of Water Resources.

In Arizona, we celebrate water conservation. In that spirit, welcome to Water Awareness Month 2024.