ADWR News Article Archive
Published: Fri, 09/15/2023
ADWR Director Tom Buschatzke has been named by the Arizona Capitol Times as one of Arizona’s “Leaders of the Year” for 2023 in environmental policy
Published: Fri, 09/08/2023
ADWR Director Tom Buschatzke joined tribal and federal officials to help celebrate the Hualapai Tribe’s historic water rights settlement
Published: Fri, 08/11/2023
Public agencies that provide direct services to their “customer base” – another way of saying “taxpayers” – have a wide variety of ways to get their service message out to those customers these days.
Published: Wed, 08/02/2023
Arizona Water News asked the NWS’s lead forecaster to flesh out moisture and temperature expectations for the balance of the summer.
Published: Fri, 07/28/2023
The ICG panel's bi-annual presentations are among the most under-appreciated and most informative two hours of drought and climate analysis available.
Published: Wed, 05/24/2023
The Grand Canyon is renowned for its geological structures and historic human explorations, but less is known of the endemic fish – the humpback chub - that adapted to survive the grueling pre-dam conditions of the Colorado River.
Published: Thu, 05/11/2023
The following set of groundwater-related words, terms and phrases should prove helpful to non-experts who are seeking to better understand the nature of the water beneath our feet.
Published: Thu, 05/04/2023
In times of severe drought, hydrological success stories can come few and far between, so a report from the U.S. Forest Service – Coconino National Forest about a successful restoration project on the Verde River watershed is welcome news
Published: Thu, 03/23/2023
Conservation and water awareness still matter. Maybe now more than ever.
Published: Wed, 03/15/2023
The Hualapai Basin sweep kicked off late in February and will continue through the end of April.
Published: Thu, 03/09/2023
SRP recently began a low-level release of water from its Verde River system.
Published: Thu, 02/16/2023
Dr. Saffell addressed precipitation, and several other factors that ultimately impact the amount of moisture that makes its way into state reservoirs.
Published: Thu, 01/26/2023
Following is ADWR Water News’ discussion of overall current moisture conditions in the Colorado River Basin with NWS Lead Meteorologist O’Malley.
Published: Fri, 01/20/2023
Earlier this month, the Arizona Department of Water Resources released the Hassayampa Groundwater Model, a numerical basin-scale groundwater model that projects water usage by existing and planned development in an area west of the White Tank mountains and northwest of Phoenix.
Published: Thu, 12/29/2022
As water news goes, all 2022 water-related stories bend the knee before those about the Colorado River and its unstable reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead.
Published: Mon, 12/12/2022
ADWR's new "Water Management Assistance Program interactive dashboard” provides information on project funding and other details related to the program
Published: Thu, 11/17/2022
Arizona’s Drought Interagency Coordinating Group meets twice annually recommends to the state’s Governor whether to continue an official drought declaration.
Published: Thu, 11/10/2022
State water providers and users hear grim news on slow progress of shortage-sharing talks
Published: Thu, 11/03/2022
To assist the rapidly growing audience of people around the world who are following the Colorado River story, ADWR has prepared the following primer on many of the terms that inevitably populate the discussions about water in the Southwest
Published: Fri, 09/16/2022
Wednesday’s “Morning Scoop on Water Issues in Arizona” served up an hour-long assessment of the State’s water supply during the current drought conditions.