AMWUA Blog
Adjust your watering to keep your landscape healthy and watersmart
As summer temperatures rise in the Valley, outdoor water usage tends to increase significantly. To ensure your landscape remains healthy and vibrant during these warmer months, it's crucial to keep your irrigation system in optimal working condition. This includes checking for leaks, ensuring even coverage, and adjusting sprinkler heads as needed. When it comes to watering, adopting the practice o...
Working together, we are One for WaterTM
AMWUA’s membership consists of ten large municipalities in Maricopa County, Arizona. Collectively, the population of the AMWUA municipalities is 3.7 million people—more than 50 percent of the state’s population.
Conservation & Efficiency
Living in a desert, Arizonans recognize that water is a limited and precious resource. We know we need to conserve and protect the water we have, stretching and preserving it for the future. We have embraced a culture of conservation, and it’s paying off. That ongoing commitment will help us weather the impacts of climate change, extended drought, and shortage.
Drought & Shortage
Extended drought and a shortage on the Colorado River in 2022 are cause for concern, but they are not unexpected. Arizona has been visionary in water management planning and policy. The AMWUA cities have prepared and invested to ensure reliable, sustainable supplies for their communities. Continued innovative water management strategies, investment, and forward-thinking policy will enable us to meet the very real challenges ahead.
Where we stand on the issues
Smart water policy and careful planning, investment, and management have enabled AMWUA’s members to build robust, reliable water supplies that support our communities and economy. It is imperative that we continue to address the issues in front of us to ensure the future viability of those supplies. Learn more about some of the issues we are working on:
AMWUA Blog
Jul 01 2025
Adjust your watering to keep your landscape healthy and watersmart
As summer temperatures rise in the Valley, outdoor water usage tends to increase significantly. To ensure your landscape remains healthy and vibrant during these warmer months, it's crucial to keep your irrigation system in optimal working condition. This includes checking for leaks, ensuring even coverage, and adjusting sprinkler heads as needed. When it comes to watering, adopting the practice o...
Jun 24 2025
Protect your yard while embracing the benefits of monsoon rains
As the monsoon season starts, we hope for plentiful rain to nourish our thirsty environment and communities. Summer precipitation in the desert provides essential moisture to our typically arid landscapes, promoting healthy plant growth while reducing outdoor water use. Additionally, the rain helps to refresh the atmosphere, lowers temperatures, and improves air quality by reducing dust and pollut...
Jun 17 2025
Funding WIFA is vital to our continued prosperity
We cannot secure Arizona’s water future if our state lawmakers continue to raid the fund intended for that purpose. It is baffling that the Legislature is considering a budget that will divert dedicated resources from Arizona’s down payment for developing new water supplies. State leaders must find alternative solutions to build the state budget without compromising our water security – the founda...
AMWUA (pronounced "am-wa" as in, "I am" and "water") is the Arizona Municipal Water Users Association, a non-profit association of ten municipalities in the Phoenix metro area, advocating responsible water stewardship that supports economic prosperity and safeguards Arizona's water supplies for future generations.
"Water is essential for life
It supplies food, generates energy, and creates jobs. The wellbeing of our communities and economies depends on it. In a desert, we are acutely aware that we must continue to plan, invest, and develop forward-thinking policy today to ensure safe, reliable, and sustainable water supplies for the future.
OUR MEMBERS
AMWUA's membership consists of ten large municipalities in Maricopa County, Arizona. Collectively, the population of the AMWUA municipalities is 3.7 million people—more than 50 percent of the state's population.
