January 1, 2008
12 pps.
Prescott Valley town officials are pleased with the results of an auction of 2,724 acre-feet of effluent water rights that could net the town over $67 million, funds the town will use to acquire needed water supplies for the rapidly growing area. The favorable results at auction have been attributed to the careful planning and calculated efforts that went into researching and structuring the unprecedented water marketing transaction.
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December 1, 2007
28 pps.
As part of its commitment to serve the water education needs of Arizona citizens, the Water Resources Research Center teamed up with the Water Education Foundation to produce the Layperson’s Guide to Arizona Water. The publication meets a longstanding need: it offers in a single, reader-friendly source information Arizona citizens need to be well informed about state water issues. Few would doubt the need for a layperson’s guide or primer describing the ins and outs of Arizona water.
December 1, 2007
54 pps.
In the Southwest United States attempts to improve the health and habitat value of riparian areas have focused on environmental restoration and preservation activities. In this predominantly arid region, many environmental enhancement activities require supplemental irrigation water. Identifying available water sources and raising funds to secure water supplies can be a barrier to the implementation or continuation of environmental enhancement activities. Few mechanisms currently exist to address this need for environmental water supplies.
November 1, 2007
12 pps.
What is the biofuel future of the state? What can be grown in semi-arid Arizona for use in biofuel production? Researchers at the University of Arizona are considering various crops for bioenergy production that could be grown in Arizona.
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September 1, 2007
12 pps.
Yet another conservation easement has been worked out along the Babocomari River, making the fourth such agreement in the area since January. The total area now protected stands at 1,410.2 acres and 4.61 miles of river. What is occurring along the Babocamari River reflects a national trend: the increased use of conservation easements as a strategy to protect natural resources.
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July 1, 2007
12 pps.
Recently passed legislation will allow Cochise County voters to create a special water management district on the upper San Pedro River as part of a plan to preserve its flow. The legislation has varied significance. Many in the environmental community view the new law as first and foremost a river-preservation effort; others see the bill as representing a breakthrough in the state's ongoing effort to adopt a rural water management strategy.
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June 30, 2007
Arizona Conserve Water is a publication dedicated to the premise that it is never too early to learn to conserve water. The K-12 educators' guide is a tool to help Arizona teachers develop among their students a knowledge and respect for water in their semi-arid home state.
May 1, 2007
12 pps.
As if Arizona did not have enough water-supply worries due to population growth and drought, the state is now contending with an application to transfer groundwater from Arizona to Nevada. Of the varied and perplexing issues the requested out-of-state transfer raises, one the most significant and far-reaching is whether Arizona law can protect state water resources from such transfers.
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Public Policy Review
Next Generation of Water Experts Explore Varied Real-World Issues
April 18, 2007
In the late 1940s, the Arizona Legislature authorized the State Land Commission to designate "critical groundwater areas." In 1973, the legislature began to require developers of land to prove that they had an "adequate" water supply. However, failure to demonstrate such an adequate supply did not prevent the developer from subdividing the lands; it only required notification to initial purchasers that there might not be an adequate supply of water. Subsequent purchasers likely received no such notice.
March 1, 2007
A situadon in Arizona is garnering national attention with the U.S. Supreme Court agreeing to hear a pair of consolidated appeals EPA y. Defenders of Wildlife and the National Association of Homebuilders y. Defenders of Wildlife. The appeals raise the issue whether federal agencies must comply with the Endangered Species Act when implementing other laws.
February 1, 2007
12 pps.
Faced with the significant challenge of groundwater overdraft, Arizona adopted groundwater recharge as a water management priority. This 12-page publication discusses early interest in recharge, describing legislative efforts to encourage and regulate projects and identifying significant issues relating to recharge such as water quality implications and control of subsidence as well as focusing on ongoing recharge projects.
January 1, 2007
Arizona's Groundwater Management Act limits the use of groundwater to meet growing demand for water by the municipal sector. The state's recharge and recovery program allows for water reuse through aquifer recharge and later recovery inside or out of the area of hydrologic impact. The paper discusses water reuse within the municipal sector in Arizona, with a special focus on the Tucson metropolitan area. Increased effluent utilization is playing a more prominent role in long-range planning efforts. The paper focuses on the role of reclaimed water in water man
January 1, 2007
North-central Arizona's dilemma is the same confronting many other areas of the state: a growing population and limited water supplies. A recently released Bureau of Reclamation report both documents the extent of the water shortage and identifies possible solutions.
September 14, 2006
Groundwater recharge has the possibility to be an innovative policy that helps to manage the groundwater supply, assures full use of the Colorado River water allocation, protects against shortages during drought, and enables affordable use of CAP water.
Terry Sprouse, George Frisvold, Amy McCoy & Kimberly Bourne
July 10, 2006
This presentation details the value of Mexican effluent to Southern Arizona. The components of the study include agriculture, property values, tourism, and the intrinsic values of the effluent.
July 1, 2006
Groundwater has long been a significant water source for many areas in Arizona. In 1980 Arizona adopted the Groundwater Management Act (ACT) to address the serious groundwater overdraft that was occurring in Tucson and several other regions of the state by the municipal, industrial and agricultural sectors. The Groundwater Management Act, through the goal of "safe-yield," has forced the municipal sector within the Tucson Active Management Area (AMA) to utilize alternative, renewable sources of water. This report focuses on the municipal sector of the Tucson
June 16, 2006
Presentation about the Santa Cruz Valley Water District.
May 8, 2006
In Arizona, many once lush riparian areas have been lost. This decline has not gone unnoticed, and in the past decade a growing number of efforts have been undertaken to restore, maintain or create new riparian and wetland areas. The number of riparian restoration projects nationwide has also increased, growing exponentially in the last decade. Along side this explosion of restoration projects, the interest of the scientific community and the public at large has also grown significantly. Scientists have conducted many studies examining various aspects of environmental enhancement projects.
April 1, 2006
There have been eighty-eight Town Halls to date. The eighty-eighth was held in Prescott on April 9-12, 2006, and addressed “Arizona’s Rapid Growth and Development: Natural Resources and Infrastructure.” The implications of growth and development have a profound effect on all Arizonans. The pace of change brought about by growth and development is accelerating and presents opportunities and challenges that are fundamentally reshaping our state. This Town Hall addressed Arizona’s explosive growth and development from the perspectives
January 31, 2006
The Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District (CAGRD) was created by an act of the Arizona Legislature in 1993 to provide groundwater replenishment services within the Central Arizona Project (CAP) service area (Maricopa, Pinal and Pima Counties). The CAGRD is operated by the Central Arizona Water Conservation District, which also operates the CAP; and the Conservation District and Replenishment Districtshare the same Board.
Terry Sprouse, Amy McCoy & Joaquin Murrieta
October 15, 2005
A 6-page "how-to" guide on the basic principles of rain barrel water harvesting and information about installing your own system. This guide was prepared for the Nogales Rainwater Harvesting Open House.
Kanchan Chopra, Rik Leemans, Pushpam Kumar & Henk Simons
September 30, 2005
September 9, 2005
Presentation to the Water Resources on the Santa Cruz River Panel
September 1, 2005
In the world of increasing population and the resulting increase in demand on our fresh water supply, natural treatment and reuse of wastewater by land application is a sustainable management strategy. Land application technology stretches the fresh water supply and protects the quality of surface and ground water...more
July 30, 2005
This paper is based on a presentation made at the Urban Design in Arid Regions Second International Symposium, Tucson, Arizona, January 23, 2005.
