Active Management Areas

The latest in user-friendly tech from Water Resources: the WMAP Dashboard

Like several other Arizona state agencies that work in complex systems, ADWR has been committed to making its data not only accessible to the public, but understandable to the public.

We’ve been accomplishing that goal in a variety of ways, including with several new, user-friendly techno-tools on our website that allow users to access detailed information without having to pore over eye-glazing charts, tables and graphs.

Published:December 12, 2022

Work of Gov’s Council studying water conservation, innovation and augmentation continues


Published:December 8, 2020

Funds for Arizona conservation projects approved in State’s DCP legislation are allocated

On January 31, 2019, Governor Doug Ducey signed historic legislation ratifying Arizona’s Drought Contingency Plan (DCP), marking the passage of one of the most significant pieces of water legislation in Arizona since the Groundwater</body></html>

Published:November 19, 2020

New ADWR Tool to Help AMA Stakeholders Participate in Development of 5th Management Plans

 

5th Management Plans Concepts PageWhen the nation’s most ambitious state law designed to protect groundwater resources came into being in 1980, a key element of that law was its series of “management plans.”

Published:September 3, 2020

The Age of Webinar: Conducting presentations in a time of social distancing

Like it or not, the Age of Webinar is upon us.

On April 23, the National Football League and its media associates orchestrated the opening rounds of its annual college player draft – a vast, multi-media undertaking that would have been enormously complicated technologically even if all the participants were together under the same roof – via webinar. 

Published:April 27, 2020

MPWG - Safe-Yield Technical Subgroup Meeting (9.23.2019)

Submitted by [email protected] on September 26, 2019 - 2:43pm

Management Plan Work Group Meeting (7.9.2019)

Submitted by [email protected] on September 24, 2019 - 7:20am

Management Plan Work Group Meeting (8.20.2019)

Submitted by [email protected] on September 24, 2019 - 7:19am

MPWG - Municipal Subgroup Meeting (9.4.2019)

Submitted by [email protected] on September 24, 2019 - 7:13am

MPWG - Agricultural Subgroup Meeting (9.5.2019)

Submitted by [email protected] on September 24, 2019 - 7:11am

MPWG - Industrial Subgroup Meeting (9.9.2019)

Submitted by [email protected] on September 24, 2019 - 7:11am

Online, interactive program featuring STEM professionals taps Water Resources talent

The professionals doing science-based work at the Arizona Department of Water Resources have taken their duties “live.”

Published:September 27, 2018

New ADWR web app answers an age-old question: Where does my water come from?

It is a technology used to combat elephant poaching in the Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

It is transforming and simplifying consumer engagement online in myriad private industries, from banking and insurance to retail and manufacturing.

Published:March 16, 2018

Lettuce help you

The list of challenges to living sustainably can be lengthy.

Conserving energy. Protecting precious resources, such as water, in times of scarcity. Buying locally. Thinking globally. 

It’s getting to be quite the to-do list for the citizen of good conscience. Everyone wants to live sustainably. Everyone wants to do their bit for society. But we all seem to have a lot of bits in our pockets these days.

Doing one’s bit can be especially complex when one of our “sustainability” missions clashes with another.

Published:October 26, 2016

AZ's Groundwater Management Act of 1980

To the “end user” – the Tempe or Tucson homeowner turning on the tap to fill a kettle for a cup of tea – it is all just water. In composition, color and consistency, it is no different from the liquid pouring forth from taps anywhere else in the U.S.

It is clear, clean and plentiful water. A basic building block of an American community.

So, what’s so complicated about that?

Published:November 18, 2016