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On Wednesday, March 19, 2025, WRRC Director Sharon B. Megdal was the featured speaker for the third and last of the Spring 2025 Tumamoc Talks lecture series, Making Agriculture More Sustainable in Arid Lands, held at the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill in Tucson, AZ. These talks, which are hosted by the U of A Arizona Institute for Resilience, focus on the science, ecology, history, and culture of the Sonoran Desert.

On March 12 and 13, 2025, members of the Prescott and Chino Valley communities braved the sleet, wind, and snow to share their experiences and knowledge of the Upper Verde Watershed. These two participatory workshops were part of a joint effort by the WRRC, Yavapai County Extension, and The Nature Conservancy to create an interactive StoryMap illustrating the history of the Upper Verde Watershed.

The detailed conference agenda with topics and confirmed speakers for the WRRC 2025 Annual Conference, Shared Borders, Shared Waters: Working Together in Times of Scarcity, is now available and can be viewed here. Act fast to get your tickets at the early bird registration rate of $170! We have extended the original deadline to April 7 to allow more time for you to get in on this deal.

A presentation and tour of the Maricopa County Flood Control District (FCDMC) Durango Campus GSI Retrofit Project, where updates will be provided on the project's status and overall construction timeline.

Surface water has been the main source of water in Pinal County since the 1990s, when the Central Arizona Project (CAP) canal began delivering Colorado River water to central Arizona.

Paul Orme, president of Family Farm Alliance, and Ronald “Ron” Rayner, former Alliance board member, are receiving recognition for their distinguished work and leadership in Western irrigated agriculture.

ShanghaiRanking has published world university rankings by academic subjects since 2009. In their ranking for 2024, the University of Arizona (U of A) was recognized as the top university in the US for Water Resources and placed #4 globally.

Navajo County, located in northeastern Arizona between Coconino and Apache counties, comprises two distinct geographic regions: arid and desert-like mesas, plateaus, and buttes in the north and mountainous piñon-juniper and ponderosa pine woodlands in the south. About 54% of Navajo County residents live in rural areas that depend on domestic groundwater wells for water.

This year, International Women’s Day was officially held on March 8, and called for the effort to “Accelerate Action,” a campaign which emphasizes the importance of taking swift and decisive steps to achieve gender equality. On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, the Women in Water Diplomacy Network (WWDN) celebrated International Women’s Day by hosting a panel discussion, titled A Path Forward for Women, Water, Peace and Security – Elevating Central Asian voices from across the Women in Water Diplomacy Network.