Spring Semester is always busy and exciting for me, particularly because I teach my graduate course, Arizona Water Policy. Each year the course is a bit…
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This Special Issue of Water will focus on the relationship of water governance practices and stakeholder engagement approaches to the development, evaluation,…
Stakeholder participation is a foundation of good water governance. Good groundwater governance typically involves the co-production of knowledge about the…
Arizona’s forests need help. The dense, over-stocked forests in Arizona are not natural and create an environment conducive to insect and disease outbreaks,…
Las Vegas is the site of December’s Colorado River Water Users Association (CRWUA) annual conference. All the basin states and Mexico are in attendance, with…
Planning for an uncertain future presents many challenges. Thinking systematically and creatively about what is in store through a process called scenario…
The 107th Arizona Town Hall, which convened at the Hilton Phoenix/Mesa in November 2015, developed consensus on the topic of “Keeping Arizona’s Water Glass…
The Water Resources Research Center 2015 conference, Indigenous Perspectives on Sustainable Water Practices, brought together a unique diversity of…
The University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center conference, Indigenous Perspectives on Sustainable Water Practices, was held on June 9-10, 2015.…
Sharon B. Megdal, Director of the Water Resources Research Center (WRRC), recently co-authored an article on Tucson Water (TW) with Alan Forrest, former…
There is an acknowledged gap between future water demand and supply available in Arizona. In some parts of Arizona, the gap exists today, where water users…
The two big water stories of the western United States and perhaps the nation are California’s water crisis and the potential for a shortage declaration on the…
The phrase “toilet to tap” has taken on a whole new meaning in Oregon. Oregon Brew Crew (OBC), the state’s oldest home beer-brewing club, has formed an…
In the mid-1980s, Brent Cluff lived in a low-slung four-bedroom house on a quiet street in Oro Valley, an upscale suburb northwest of Tucson. Saguaro and…
On April 22 – Earth Day – EPA Region 3 released a publication titled, Community Based Public-Private Partnerships (CBP3) and Alternative Market-Based Tools for…
