In testimony before the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Water and Power, ADWR Director Tom Buschatzke on Wednesday described Arizona’s long history of water conservation and groundwater management while also illustrating the drought-related challenges currently facing the Colorado River states.

Like most Arizona State Government agencies, a top customer-service priority of ADWR is to increase the public’s access to Department services online. Increasing the availability of online services is one of ADWR’s top customer-service metrics. Three of ADWR’s divisions that interact regularly with

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Even before the substantial torrents of summer rains over the past week or so finally paused, water and weather experts were acting to contain the public’s excitement about the impact of the monsoon on the Southwest’s long-running drought.

One seriously overlooked resource is the Arizona Drought Preparedness Annual Report, published each year by ADWR in collaboration with the Drought Monitoring Technical Committee, the Drought Interagency Coordinating Group, and the Local Drought Impact Groups.

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ADWR is committed to making data about Arizona’s water resources as accessible to the public as possible. And, for that matter, as quickly as possible. Water analysts outside the Department often need fresh information about, say, groundwater conditions in certain regions of Arizona quickly.

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In an online briefing that attracted over 700 viewers, the Director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources and the General Manager of the Central Arizona Project described the unprecedented, drought-driven challenges facing the Colorado River system and what Arizona is doing to address them