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Threats to Riparian Ecosystems in Western North America: An Analysis of Existing Literature

Keywords: riparian ecosystems, threats, dams, pollution, grazing, land use change, timber harvesting, water diversion, road construction, recreation, mining,…

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The Benefits and Challenges of Green Roofs on Public and Commercial Buildings

Cities create remarkable social environments out of what had been untouched natural landscapes. It is important to understand what is lost in that process as…

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Cooperation for transboundary water management

Integrated management of trasnboundary rivers and aquifers is a major challenge. This article reviews some of these challenges and the cooperation that has…

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Arroyo 2011 - Desalination in Arizona

Desalination, the removal of salts from water, harvests fresh water from salty water. It is not the “silver bullet” that will supply the world, or Arizona,…

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Arizona Water Resource Spring 2011

Water draws people together because water is life. However, when many people, animals, and industries are competing over limited water, things can get tense.…

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Back to Fundamentals—On Economics and Water Pricing

Some readers of my column may not know that I am an economist by training. As a graduate student and at the start of my professional career, I focused on…

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Rainwater Collection - Basic Components of a Rainwater Storage System

Basic components described are for a non-potable storage system. A potable system would need to consist of all food grade materials, and water would need to be…

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City of Tucson Residential Gray Water Information Guide

On October 14, 2008, Mayor and Council unanimously voted to require all new residences to be built with gray water capabilities. Starting June 1, 2010, all new…

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AzEWN Assessment and Methodology Guidebook Brochure

This document is a four-page color brochure highlighting the contents of the Arizona Environmental Water Needs Assessment Report and Methodology Guidebook.

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The Evolution: Clean Water to LID

Keywords: low impact development; EPA; Phase II stormwater regulations; MS4 regulations; case studies

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West-Wide Climate Risk Assessments: Bias-Corrected and Spatially Downscaled Surface Water Projections

Public Law 111-11, Subtitle F (SECURE1 Water Act), section (§) 9503 authorizes the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation…

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The Forgotten Sector: Arizona Water Law and the Environment

This paper examines the extent to which environmental water needs, especially the needs of riparian habitats, have both been recognized and neglected in…

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Rainwater Collection - Calculating Water Supply and Demand to Estimate Storage Needs

When it comes to finances, balancing the budget is important. But what about balancing our water use? We turn on the tap and out comes clean, treated water…

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The Value of Green Infrastructure for Urban Climate Adaptation

In this paper CCAP provides information on the costs and benefits of “green” infrastructure solutions for bolstering local adaptation to climate…

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Arizona Water Resource Winter 2011

The field of hydrophilanthropy has been around for decades, although the term is fairly new. Hydrophilanthropy means different things to different people,…

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