Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Tanya Trujillo traveled from Washington, D.C. this week for a two-day visit to Arizona that, on Tuesday, included a roundtable discussion on water issues at the offices of the Arizona Department of Water Resources.

The Drought Monitoring Technical Committee met most recently on December 2 of last year, a time when a strong summer monsoon season had helped unlock the state from the most severe drought conditions.

As in nearly all his previous State of the State addresses, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey on January 10 emphasized the importance of water to the State’s future

How long has Arizona been in drought? It’s a question we get a lot at ADWR, especially since the chronic dry conditions impacting the entire Southwest have begun making big news, such as this year’s first-ever cutback in Colorado River allocation deliveries.

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Herb Guenther, a former director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, passed away on December 17

The advisory group that makes recommendations to Arizona’s governor about whether to continue a drought-emergency declaration opted in November to advise Gov. Ducey to stay the course and keep the declaration in place.

On October 17, four of ADWR’s team members competed in the grueling Ironman Arizona 70.3 competition that kicked off at Tempe Beach Park near the Mill Avenue Bridge.

ADWR Water resources manager John Riggins recently completed a 100 mile ultra-marathon from Flagstaff to the Grand Canyon

ADWR Director Tom Buschatzke on October 15 described for members of the U.S. House of Representatives the serious conditions currently facing the states of the Colorado River Basin