Geothermal energy is expected to be a topic of growing importance in Arizona. Not only an energy issue, geothermal is also a water issue. In a hydrothermal…
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Arizona is growing and developing in leaps and bounds, with major building projects considered for outside Prescott city limits, the Chino Valley area,…
Depending upon the perspective, whether hydrological or legal, the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming or the Colorado River Compact might be considered the…
Skiing requires snow; snowfall depends upon atmospheric conditions. Simple and obvious as these statements are they raise a complex question: what effect will…
This year's monsoon season may have been a late bloomer but was typical in most other respects. According to the National Weather Service Office in Tucson, the…
A good environmental deed was done when the full flow of Fossil Creek was recently restored after nearly 100 years of restricted flows. It was the familiar…
Over the years the Yuma Desalting Plant (YDP) has produced much more conflict than desalinated water. An effort has recenfly been made to change this situation…
Interbasin groundwater transfers are a strategy to obtain additional water supplies in parts of the state with inadequate water resources. It is a strategy,…
Biological monitoring, or biomonitoring as it is more commonly known, and water quality testing set out to accomplish similar objectives, although they have…
Water and time, a suitable note to sound for this end-of-the-jear edition of the Arizona Water Resource newsletter, are separate and distinct, yet at some…
When most people think of drought they think of possible personal inconveniences. Should they forego their Lake Powell vacation? Will watering vegetation face…
Eagerly anticipated and vitally needed, the North American monsoon is also elusive and difficult to predict. When will it arrive? How much precipitation will…
Not likely to be disputed is the premise that a successful water conservation program results in water users consuming less water. What has been disputed - a…
The Governor's Drought Task Force, established about a year ago to develop a management plan for drought stressed Arizona, is making progress on its assigned…
The quest to discover signs of water on Mars continues, with Opportunity, one of the two Mars Exploration Rovers, sending back images of the planet soil. At…
