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How do we inspire young learners to become creative and critical thinkers, problem solvers, ethical decision-makers, and stewards of our environment? Each year, fourth-grade students from across Arizona participate in the Arizona Project WET (APW) Water Festival program, first completing the curriculum in the classroom and then exploring and engaging with large-scale models about the water cycle, watersheds, groundwater system, and water conservation technology, and how we can conserve water.

Arizona Project WET answered the call of the mountains, with Arizona Water Festivals in Flagstaff, Payson, Prescott, and Verde Valley. The first in the series was the 17th Annual Flagstaff Water Festival (AWF).

Last week, Director Sharon B. Megdal and Graduate Assistant Taylor Simmons represented the WRRC at the 2023 County Supervisors Association (CSA) Legislative Policy Summit in Flagstaff.

On October 19, the US Water Alliance organized its 9th annual Imagine a Day Without Water campaign to raise awareness of issues of water security and to promote investment in our water systems.

The University of Arizona is a Pillar consortium member of Planet Forward, engaging diverse college students from across the country who use storytelling, media, and educational events to tell the stories of innovation that can move our planet forward.

More Arizonans are harvesting rainwater, committed to do their share to save water, be self-reliant, reduce their water bill, or all of the above.

In the second seminar of the Fall 2023 Indige-FEWSS Native Voices in STEM (NVIS) series, co-sponsored by the WRRC, Dr. Valerisa Gaddy highlighted the need for culturally sensitive and inclusive decision-making practices for food safety and agricultural regulations.

The San Pedro River, running south to north from its headwaters in the mountains in northern Sonora, Mexico, to its confluence with the Gila River in Arizona, is a critical riparian corridor and hotly contested water resource.

The WRRC would like to congratulate Rebecca Bernat, former WRRC Graduate Research Assistant and graduate of the UArizona Environmental Science PhD program, on her recent promotion to Manager of the Arizona Water Banking Authority (AWBA).

Joshua R. Ruddick of Tucson, AZ, passed away unexpectedly of natural causes on August 27, 2023. A passionate social justice advocate, environmentalist, and student of the world, Josh spent nearly 15 years as a high school science instructor before joining the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Arizona Project WET as Tucson Program coordinator in 2021.