Updates

Webinar Recording: An Introduction to the Arizona Water Blueprint On June 25, 2020, Kyl Center for Water Policy staff provided a 45-minute webinar introduction to the Arizona Water Blueprint.

New ASU mapping tool shows holistic view of water in Arizona Kyl Center's interactive tool includes desalination projects, habitats, dams, agriculture.

Growing Arizona metros look to rural communities for water As one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, Arizona’s expanding population has pitted its denser metropolitan areas against rural communities over a finite resource: access to enough water that can support their needs.

Table Scraps: Kitchen Waste Is Often Water Waste The only part I don’t like about recent hand washing graphics I’ve seen around is the last step: Use a paper towel to turn off the water. Is the water running the whole time you’re drying? And during the whole 20-second wash? How much water is just gushing away here?

Clean water is critical to stem the coronavirus pandemic. Here's what you can do to help In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Americans have rightly recognized the heroism and importance of medical professionals, first responders and the “essential workers” staffing groceries and pharmacies. Perhaps less recognized, but every bit as important, are those employed in the water and sanitation sector.

Buckeye is the nation's fastest-growing city. But it doesn't have the water to keep it up Mike Ingram looks at raw desert west of the White Tank Mountains, some 40 miles west of Phoenix, where brush clings to brown soil and cactuses stretch toward blue sky, and envisions tens of thousands of homes.

What's on Tap for Arizona Water in 2020? Five Issues to Watch Each year, water becomes a little more scarce in the Southwest, and each year, everyone in Arizona jostles a tad more fiercely to hold onto their precious shares of this vital resource.

Groundwater regulation new conflict in water management From the Arizona Capitol Times: In areas in Arizona where groundwater is unregulated, any landowner who can afford it can drill as much and as deep as they wish, take as much water as they want and are not required to report their usage to the state. But their water must be for a “beneficial use,” per statute, which includes agriculture.