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2019 WSI Conference & Expo First-Timer Scholarship Opportunity
The world’s preeminent urban water efficiency conference and expo is in our backyard. If you are an Arizona water conservation or sustainability professional and you haven’t yet attended, now is your chance!...
He took down dams, freed wolves and preserved wildlands. Bruce Babbitt is still at work
During eight years as secretary of the Interior under President Bill Clinton, and previously as Arizona’s governor, Babbitt distinguished himself as a Democratic politician who skillfully navigated environmental debates and prioritized the ...
How Wildfires and Monsoons Threaten Arizona's Precious Water Supply
Next to Apache Lake, the southern bank of the Salt River rises in a palette of tans and browns dotted with green stubble. Partway up the slope, the summer desert hues stop abruptly at a horizontal fire line. Above it, the land converts to a...
Western states buy time with a 7-year Colorado River drought plan, but face a hotter, drier future
As Midwest states struggled with record spring flooding this year, the Southwest was wrestling with the opposite problem: not enough water. On May 20, 2019, federal officials and leaders from seven states signed the ...
Newly created river flow on Santa Cruz seen as 'miracle' to some
What do you call a river in the desert, asked downtown-area resident Daryl Alderson as he sat on his bike along the freshly wetted Santa Cruz River just north of West Speedway. “A miracle. And this, in a sense, is a miracle,” said Alderson,...