ADWR News Article Archive
Published: Wed, 08/03/2022
ADWR’s Adjudications Division – a part of our team that deals with the nature, extent and relative priority of water rights in Arizona, which is one of the most complex areas of water law – has just put online an interactive tool that puts more information at the public’s fingertips.
Published: Fri, 07/22/2022
Arizona’s water leaders laid out the path forward for contending with the difficult choices facing all of the Colorado River system’s water users
Published: Thu, 06/02/2022
The State panel concluded that Arizona remains locked in the chronic drought conditions that have plagued the Southwest for more than two decades.
Published: Fri, 05/27/2022
The latest “Morning Scoop” panel discussion sponsored by the Arizona Capitol Times focused on a broad overview of the water issues facing Arizona.
Published: Fri, 05/13/2022
The Shortage Briefing event was hosted by CAP General Manager Ted Cooke and ADWR Director Tom Buschatzke.
Published: Thu, 04/21/2022
The prestigious Michael J. Brophy Distinguished Service Award presented to ADWR’s chief counsel, Ken Slowinski.
Published: Mon, 04/11/2022
One of the first WAM events this year demonstrates some of the impressive advances hydrologists have made in their studies of the movement of water in Arizona
Published: Thu, 03/31/2022
Welcome to Water Awareness Month 2022. As part of the effort to keep the public aware of the many ways they can help conserve water, ADWR and our many WAM partners have organized a month of events promoting wise water use.
Published: Wed, 03/23/2022
The “good” news from Lake Powell: rate of loss of storage capacity due to sediment hasn’t changed since 1963
Published: Thu, 03/10/2022
Understanding how and where water flows underground is vital, especially for the people living on top of the ground.
Published: Fri, 02/25/2022
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Tanya Trujillo traveled from Washington, D.C. this week for a two-day visit to Arizona that, on Tuesday, included a roundtable discussion on water issues at the offices of the Arizona Department of Water Resources.
Published: Thu, 01/27/2022
The Drought Monitoring Technical Committee met most recently on December 2 of last year, a time when a strong summer monsoon season had helped unlock the state from the most severe drought conditions.
Published: Fri, 01/21/2022
As in nearly all his previous State of the State addresses, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey on January 10 emphasized the importance of water to the State’s future
Published: Thu, 01/06/2022
How long has Arizona been in drought? It’s a question we get a lot at ADWR, especially since the chronic dry conditions impacting the entire Southwest have begun making big news, such as this year’s first-ever cutback in Colorado River allocation deliveries.
Published: Wed, 12/22/2021
Lower Basin States and Reclamation Take Action to Help Protect Lake Mead, Sign Agreement
Published: Wed, 12/22/2021
Herb Guenther, a former director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, passed away on December 17
Published: Tue, 12/07/2021
The advisory group that makes recommendations to Arizona’s governor about whether to continue a drought-emergency declaration opted in November to advise Gov. Ducey to stay the course and keep the declaration in place.
Published: Wed, 11/10/2021
On October 17, four of ADWR’s team members competed in the grueling Ironman Arizona 70.3 competition that kicked off at Tempe Beach Park near the Mill Avenue Bridge.
Published: Thu, 10/28/2021
ADWR Water resources manager John Riggins recently completed a 100 mile ultra-marathon from Flagstaff to the Grand Canyon
Published: Fri, 10/22/2021
ADWR Director Tom Buschatzke on October 15 described for members of the U.S. House of Representatives the serious conditions currently facing the states of the Colorado River Basin