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A public celebration of Arizona’s water professionals scheduled for April 13 at the State Capitol has been cancelled, just as nearly every other public gathering nationwide has been cancelled this spring, a result of efforts to stem the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.

Let’s face it: Arizona Water Awareness Month – which is now – is not exactly an attention-getter this year.

On a mission to reassure Arizonans that their tap water is secure in these unsettled times, a group of agencies including ADWR and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has released an informational statement observing that “Arizona’s water supplies remain safe and resilient."

ADWR Continuing Operations

In this data-heavy “Age of Information” in which we live, agencies like the Arizona Department of Water Resources constantly struggle with how to make information we collect more easily available to the public.

Last fall, the NWS began noticing a pattern emerging in its modelling of the approaching winter in the Southwest. It wasn’t exactly a happy pattern.

The Water Protection Fund website upgraded

The Kanab ambersnail, was disrupted suddenly in 1996 when high-volume water-flow events from Glen Canyon Dam began scouring the canyon.

In December, the Bar’s environmental section honored Ken Slowinski, Chief Counsel of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, with its prestigious Michael J. Brophy Distinguished Service Award.

Water news in Arizona and the Southwest in 2019 certainly wasn’t limited entirely to the big signing of the Colorado River system-wide Drought Contingency Plan in May.