Sweetwater Image: Amy Fee
March 22 is the annual World Water Day. Since 1993, the United Nations has designated this day to bring awareness to different aspects of freshwater availability. This year, the focus is on glacier preservation. The five most recent foci were leveraging water for peace, accelerating change, groundwater, valuing water, and water and climate change. For each World Water Day, a report is issued by the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP). This year’s report, issued on March 21, 2025, can be found on WWAP’s website.
U of A Ranked #1 for Water Resources on ShanghaiRanking
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.
Family Farm Alliance Leaders, WRRC Collaborators Recently Honored
Paul Orme, president of Family Farm Alliance (Alliance), and Ronald “Ron” Rayner, former Alliance board member, are receiving recognition for their distinguished work and leadership in Western irrigated agriculture.
Arizona Water Factsheets … Did You Know?
Pinal County Relies on Surface Water
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.