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.

ADWR’s Adjudications Division – a part of our team that deals with the nature, extent and relative priority of water rights in Arizona, which is one of the most complex areas of water law – has just put online an interactive tool that puts more information at the public’s fingertips.

Arizona’s water leaders laid out the path forward for contending with the difficult choices facing all of the Colorado River system’s water users

The State panel concluded that Arizona remains locked in the chronic drought conditions that have plagued the Southwest for more than two decades.

The latest “Morning Scoop” panel discussion sponsored by the Arizona Capitol Times focused on a broad overview of the water issues facing Arizona.

The Shortage Briefing event was hosted by CAP General Manager Ted Cooke and ADWR Director Tom Buschatzke.

The prestigious Michael J. Brophy Distinguished Service Award presented to ADWR’s chief counsel, Ken Slowinski.

One of the first WAM events this year demonstrates some of the impressive advances hydrologists have made in their studies of the movement of water in Arizona