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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,...
Sky Harbor saves water, resources by swapping turf with xeriscape
A program to replace the green grass turf with native desert landscape around ...
New USBR modeling shows substantial reduction in Mead, Powell risk over the next five years
The unusually wet winter (with an assist from new Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan water reduction rules) has substantially reduced the near-term scare-the-crap-out-of-me risks on the Colorado River for the next few years, according ...