The WRRC Annual Photo Contest is back! This year’s theme is Water in Focus. Use your artistic and technical abilities to express how water transforms our world and how people transform water. From ANY LOCATION, we invite you to show us how water connects to people, nature, the built environment, and agriculture.
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WTI Releases Policy Brief on Tribal Sovereignty
The Water & Tribes Initiative (WTI) recently published a new policy brief, titled Tribal Sovereignty in the Colorado River Basin and Beyond. It begins by placing Tribal sovereignty in historical context, noting that “Native peoples have existed within self-governing political communities in North America for a very long time—millennia before Europeans arrived on the continent.”
Colorado River Negotiations Discussed at WRRC Co-sponsored Webinar
On Thursday, July 16, a Growing Water Smart Peer Network Webinar featured a discussion of “Colorado River Negotiations.” Hosted by the Sonoran Institute and the Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy, the webinar was co-sponsored by the WRRC and the Colorado Water Center at Colorado State University. WRRC Director Sharon B. Megdal and Karen Schlatter, Director of the Colorado Water Center at Colorado State University, provided presentations followed by a question-and-answer session with attendees.
Tucson Receives AWS Designation from ADWR
This month, the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) approved Tucson Water’s assured water supply (AWS) designation for the next ten years, determining that Tucson residents would have at least 166,000 acre-feet of water annually for the next century.