ADWR News Article Archive

On April 15, the operators of the Colorado River system – the Bureau of Reclamation – made official what everyone familiar with the drought-stricken system has seen coming as the extraordinarily dry winter of 2020/21 has lingered on: That by the end of 2021, water levels at the system’s Lake Mead

For many years, the Arizona Department of Water Resources has been a “water conservation” partner in Arizona Water Awareness Month the annual outreach campaign to spread the word about the value of conserving the Southwest’s most precious natural resource, water.

In January, the National Integrated Drought Information System launched redesign of Drought.gov to better serve stakeholders, decision-makers, media and public

To keep Arizonans abreast of developments in state water law, ADWR will add a section to the Department’s website that chronicles legislative actions

The work of the Governor’s Water Augmentation, Innovation and Conservation Council has continued, like so many other organizations, via online on Dec. 1

At its fall meeting on Tuesday, November 10, the panel concluded that Arizona’s decades-long drought is not about to relent its grip any time soon

Earlier this week, Arizona Department of Water Resources Director Tom Buschatzke delivered a videotaped shout-out to all the ADWR divisions that use GIS technology in presentations.

The jet stream position that is now ushering gales of hot, dry air right where it is needed least – into drought-wracked northern California – is not a particularly unusual feature at this time of year.

When the nation’s most ambitious state law designed to protect groundwater, resources came into being in 1980, a key element of that law was its series of “management plans.”