This presentation details the value of Mexican effluent to Southern Arizona. The components of the study include agriculture, property values, tourism, and the…
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I devote one column a year to providing an update on developments at the Water Resources Research Center. The end of the fiscal year provides a suitable…
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…
Groundwater has long been a significant water source for many areas in Arizona. In 1980 Arizona adopted the Groundwater Management Act (ACT) to address…
In Arizona, many once lush riparian areas have been lost. This decline has not gone unnoticed, and in the past decade a growing number of efforts have been…
Information about this year’s Water Resources Research Center conference is frontpage news in this edition of the Arizona Water Resource. The 2003 WRRC…
Arizona is growing and developing in leaps and bounds, with major building projects considered for outside Prescott city limits, the Chino Valley area,…
Recently, Ken Seasholes, Director of the Tucson Active Management Area, was a guest lecturer at the graduate seminar, Arizona Water Policy, which I teach with…
There have been eighty-eight Town Halls to date. The eighty-eighth was held in Prescott on April 9-12, 2006, and addressed “Arizona’s Rapid Growth and…
Depending upon the perspective, whether hydrological or legal, the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming or the Colorado River Compact might be considered the…
The Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District (CAGRD) was created by an act of the Arizona Legislature in 1993 to provide groundwater replenishment…
When I give introductory talks about groundwater management in Arizona, I note that the linchpin to our approach to reducing groundwater overdraft in the…
Skiing requires snow; snowfall depends upon atmospheric conditions. Simple and obvious as these statements are they raise a complex question: what effect will…
Historically, harvested rain water provided water for drinking, landscape watering, and for agricultural uses. Once urban areas started to develop, centralized…
A multistudy research program has investigated how consumers respond to the urban forest in central business districts of cities of various sizes. Trees…
