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Robert C. Robbins speaks with Professor Sharon Megdal, Director of the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Arizona, about the Colorado River Basin's water crisis and the future of our state.

The WRRC is pleased to introduce and welcome two new staff members to its administrative team. Jennifer Rascon is the new Business Manager for the ENVS/WRRC Shared Business Center and comes to us from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,

Every year, Arizona Project WET (APW) gets a new team of Water Educators and every year they have to say goodbye as each AmeriCorps member finishes their term.

On June 6, 2023, US team members from the Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program (TAAP) met at the WRRC to talk about past, current, and future research and collaborative efforts.

Candidates are sought for an Associate Director (Year-to-Year Professional) and Associate/Full Extension Specialist (Continuing Status Eligible, Fiscal Year appointment), at the Water Resources Research Center in the Division of Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension at the University of Arizona.

A story I am telling a lot lately about my time at Arizona Project WET was that at my first Arizona Water Festival in 2008 we were still teaching kids about water conservation behaviors like turning off the water when you brush your teeth and taking shorter showers.

The Yavapai County Water Factsheet is now available! As the fifth installment of the WRRC’s Arizona Water Factsheet initiative, this eight-page resource provides wide-ranging examples and essential contextual information to understand water supplies, demands, and management in Yavapai County.

We congratulate Simone A. Williams, Graduate Research Associate at the WRRC and a PhD Candidate in the Arid Lands Resource Sciences GIDP, who has been awarded a Babbitt Dissertation Fellowship to support her dissertation research! This competitive and prestigious fellowship is granted by The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, to support US university students whose dissertation research shows strong potential to support the integration of land and water policies, contributes to advancing water sustainability and resilience, and has significant public impact, especially in western states.

On Wednesday, April 12, the WRRC hosted a webinar featuring presentations from a panel of authors who contributed papers to the Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 2022 Featured Collection, Severe Sustained Drought Revisited: Managing the Colorado River System in Times of Water Shortage 25 Years Later.

On Tuesday, April 11, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) released a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for Near-term Colorado River Operations. The plans outlined in the draft SEIS revise the current interim operating guidelines for the management of the two largest reservoirs in the Colorado River system: Lake Mead and Lake Powell.