Dr. Saffell addressed precipitation, and several other factors that ultimately impact the amount of moisture that makes its way into state reservoirs.

Following is ADWR Water News’ discussion of overall current moisture conditions in the Colorado River Basin with NWS Lead Meteorologist O’Malley.

Earlier this month, the Arizona Department of Water Resources released the Hassayampa Groundwater Model, a numerical basin-scale groundwater model that projects water usage by existing and planned development in an area west of the White Tank mountains and northwest of Phoenix.

As water news goes, all 2022 water-related stories bend the knee before those about the Colorado River and its unstable reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead.

ADWR's new "Water Management Assistance Program interactive dashboard” provides information on project funding and other details related to the program

Arizona’s Drought Interagency Coordinating Group meets twice annually recommends to the state’s Governor whether to continue an official drought declaration.

State water providers and users hear grim news on slow progress of shortage-sharing talks

To assist the rapidly growing audience of people around the world who are following the Colorado River story, ADWR has prepared the following primer on many of the terms that inevitably populate the discussions about water in the Southwest

Wednesday’s “Morning Scoop on Water Issues in Arizona” served up an hour-long assessment of the State’s water supply during the current drought conditions.

ADWR Director Tom Buschatzke and Central Arizona Project General Manager Ted Cooke released a statement outlining Arizona’s efforts to help stabilize the troubled Colorado River system.