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Rio Reimagined begins to take shapeParticipants at the first-ever Arizona Forward Sustainability Summit helped establish a set of recommendations for the Rio Reimagined project that is set to redefine metro Phoenix in the coming...
Mohave Valley Daily News
Feds want drought contingency plansThe commissioner of the federal Bureau of Reclamation wants Colorado River system states to take action this year on drought contingency plans to reduce the risk that Lake Mead will fall below...
Mohave Valley Daily News
Agencies to host joint drought briefing in TempeArizona Department of Water Resources and the Central Arizona Project are inviting the public to a briefing on the Lower Basin Drought Contingency Plan and Arizona’s Colorado River...
The Daily Star
Ted Kowalski: Longterm solutions needed to keep our water flowingEarlier in May, Brenda Burman, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation within the Department of the Interior, urged water managers in the Colorado River Basin to adopt Drought Contingency...
AZ Family
Arizona's first malt house helps keep the Verde River and local beer flowingCustomers at the Wren House brewery in Phoenix might not realize it, but when they draw a draft here, they are helping make sure water still flows some 100 miles to the north in...
KUNC The Takeaway
Colorado River Reservoirs Expected To Be Less Than Half Full, Headed Toward Historic LowReservoirs that store water along the Colorado River are projected to be less than half full later this year, potentially marking a historic low mark for the river system that supplies water to...
The Hill
Western water strategy shifting from ‘use it or lose it,’ to ‘waste not, want not’In recent weeks, federal officials have warned residents of the southwestern United States that their two major lifelines — the Colorado River and the Rio Grande — will deliver...
KNAU Arizona Public Radio
Pine-Strawberry Officials Implement Heightened Water Use RestrictionsOfficials in the communities of Pine and Strawberry this week put mandatory water restrictions in place. KNAU’s Ryan Heinsius reports, it’s one of the only areas in the state to have...
The Daily Star
CAP kills purchase of rural land, water rights for suburban Tucson-Phoenix growthThe agency that operates the CAP must look elsewhere for water for future suburban growth, now that it’s killed a proposed $34 million deal to buy land and water rights in rural Mohave County...
Mohave Valley Daily News
CAP challenges state recommendation on Quartzsite water leaseCalling the recommendation by ADWR that the Secretary of the Interior deny the proposed lease of Quartzsite’s Colorado River water entitlement a “significant blow” to Quartzsite,...