AMWUA Blog
Schools: A Lesson About How To Save Water
The people who keep school buildings operating have a big job, and data from the City of Phoenix show they're doing it while saving water. Numbers from the city indicate that the volume of water used by school districts dropped 18 percent between 1990 and 2012....
Sep 21 2015
Putting A Price Tag On Our Urban Forest
Have you seen them? They look like big orange plastic price tags, about 1 foot by 2 feet, hanging from trees around the City of Phoenix....
Sep 14 2015
Re-imagine Your Yard: Cities Offer Free Landscaping Classes
Here's the first rule about changing your landscaping: start with a plan. A plan takes a little know-how and right now many of your cities are offering classes about how to revamp, restore or refresh your yard this fall. The classes are free and registration is simple. There is a ...
Sep 07 2015
On The Fence About That Lawn? Here's An Incentive
Grass does have a role in our desert environment with proper care and appropriate irrigation....
Aug 31 2015
You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure
Some U.S. cities and towns still don't use water meters. Instead, the overall cost of delivering water and sewer services is tallied every month and divided by the number of customers. A homeowner may be using half the amount of water as his neighbor, but each pays the same flat monthly rate....
Aug 24 2015
Water Bill Too High? Cities Offer Free Water Audits
Homeowners are quick to blame water meters when their water bills escalate....
Aug 17 2015
Watering: Every Desert Landscape's Beauty Secrets Revealed
So you've selected desert-adapted plants and trees and installed a beautiful water-saving landscape....
Aug 10 2015
Design: Here’s Your Guide To A Car-Stopping Landscape
We've all seen desert yards where three or four cactus plants are scattered across a sea of gravel. (We may see one when we look out our windows.) Then we've seen those dramatic desert yards with the height, depth, color and texture of a painting....
Aug 03 2015
New Plant Site: Colorful, Mobile, Useful and Inspiring
AMWUA has been the go-to source for desert landscaping guides since desert landscaping was a novelty. Plant selection information remains the runaway favorite destination on our website....
Jul 27 2015
El Rio: Cities Work To Restore Gila River Beauty
Salt cedar is a bushy, invasive tree that can change the face of a landscape in a dangerous way. Three West Valley cities and Maricopa County are pushing to eradicate as much salt cedar as possible along an 18-mile stretch of the Gila Riverbed. Once destroyed, the goal is to replace the salt cedar groves with a wetlands habitat of native plants and trees that will attract wildlife, hikers, birders...