Protecting Phoenix area cities’ ability to provide assured, safe, and sustainable water supplies to their communities.
AMWUA Blog
Warren Tenney
Executive Director
Trees play a vital role in our communities
There are many ways to enhance any landscape, but one of the most beneficial ways is with trees, especially desert-adapted ones that can thrive in our arid climate. While planting the correct type of tree will make an immediate visual impact because of its beauty, color, and texture, trees also bring many benefits when planted and cared for properly. Low-water-use trees provide social, communal, environmental, and economic benefits for everyone and positively impact our desert communities in... Read More>
- Accounting for evaporation and system losses needs to be part of managing the Colorado River
- Avoid a clog with proper disposal of holiday FOG
- Water agencies unite to reduce demands on the Colorado River
- Water is critical to our communities, health, safety, and overall survival
- As temperatures drop, so should your outdoor watering
- Cities understand the importance of providing accurate information on the Colorado River shortage to their communities
Keeping Current
Where We Stand
Colorado River Structural Imbalance
Levels at Lake Mead are rapidly dropping, in part, because the water stored in this reservoir is over-allocated to the states that share it. This puts the stability of the Colorado River system and reliability of Arizona’s Colorado River supplies at serious risk.
Conservation & Efficiency
Drought & Shortage
