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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,...
Even after a rush of snow and rain, the thirsty Colorado River Basin is “not out of the woods yet”
Colorado’s water year has been extraordinary....
Arizona water leaders honored
A monumental effort to protect Arizona’s share of the dwindling Colorado River was shepherded by two longtime state water officials: Tom Bushatzke, the director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, and Ted Cooke, the general manage...
Sky Harbor saves water, resources by swapping turf with xeriscape
A program to replace the green grass turf with native desert landscape around ...
Water runs in the Santa Cruz River
Thanks to release of treated effluent at 29th Street, water will flow year-round in the Santa Cruz River west of downtown Tucson for the first time since the 1940s. The water has flowed much further north than officials at Tucson Water had ...