Arizona Department of Water Resources

The challenge facing the Arizona Department of Water Resources right now, said Department policy adviser and legislative liaison Doug Dunham, is to balance 17 years of on-going drought in the Southwest with healthy economic growth in Arizona.

Maybe it was a reflection of the economically tough times, but popular music tastes in the mid-to-late Seventies were on a quest for something… edgy.

The Beatles as a group were long since done and gone. Flower Power rock was on the wane. A disaffected, often bitter subdivision of youth culture was on the rise. It found its loud, discordant, often profane voice in something called… punk.

It is a safe bet that at one time or another nearly every member of the Water Resources team has needed to explain to an acquaintance what we are not.

No, we’re not the people primarily responsible for assuring the quality of the state’s water supply. Those are our valued colleagues over at the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.

ADEQ is just across the hall. Come on over some day. We’ll introduce you.