Arizona Water Factsheets … Did You Know? March 14, 2025 Navajo County, located in northeastern Arizona between Coconino and Apache counties, comprises two distinct geographic regions: arid and desert-like mesas, plateaus, and buttes in the north and mountainous piñon-juniper and ponderosa pine woodlands in the south. About 54% of Navajo County residents live in rural areas that depend on domestic groundwater wells for water. Read more Image WRRC Recognizes National Groundwater Awareness Week March 14, 2025 The National Ground Water Association’s (NGWA) annual observance of Groundwater Awareness Week is March 9–15, 2025, and is an occasion in which to remember a major but hidden water resource. Read more Image NGWA 2025 Darcy Lecture Considers Ancient Groundwater Feb. 14, 2025 Did you know that most of the Earth’s groundwater is over 12,000 years old? The WRRC and the U of A Department of Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences co-sponsored a Darcy Lecture on Living Fossils: Ancient Groundwaters in the Anthropocene, given by Grant Ferguson on February 5, 2025. Read more Image ADWR Releases SDRs for 14 Groundwater Basins Dec. 5, 2024 If you’re curious about the water use conditions in your area, you might find details in the 2024 Supply and Demand Reports (SDRs) created by the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR). Read more Image WRRC Director Submits Groundwater Comments to PCAST July 22, 2024 The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has formed a working group to consider opportunities and challenges related to our understanding and stewardship of America’s groundwater. Read more Image WRRC Grad Student Highlighted in Water Resources Magazine Jan. 5, 2024 Simone A. Williams is a WRRC graduate research associate and Director Sharon B. Megdal chairs her dissertation committee. Williams’ research was recently featured in the November/December 2023 issue of Water Resources IMPACT, a digital magazine that highlights the achievements of water management professionals. Read more Image ADWR Releases First Seven Groundwater Basin Assessments Dec. 8, 2023 The Arizona Department of Water Resources recently released the first seven supply and demand assessments for the state’s groundwater basins. The department is required by a state law signed in 2022 to complete a supply and demand assessment of each of Arizona’s 51 basins every five years. Read more Image Saving Groundwater at Schools Jan. 15, 2021 Gasps of excitement and broad smiles are common when students explore the groundwater system using APW’s 3D student models. APW is very excited and eager to expand this success through a multiyear grant from Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR), which provides funding to educate West Valley students on Arizona’s groundwater conditions. Read more Image Transboundary and International Groundwater Topics Fill Events Calendar Sept. 18, 2020 The Permanent Forum of Binational Waters is hosting the US-Mexico Transboundary Groundwater Conference, “Innovation and Creativity: Strategies for Unprecedented Challenges,” October 14-15, 2020, via Zoom. Cohosts include Texas A&M University and the Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua. Read more Image Today We Celebrate 40 Years of Groundwater Management June 15, 2020 Forty years ago today, on June 12, 1980, water managers in Arizona took a monumental step toward addressing severe groundwater overdraft in the State's most populous regions with the passage of the Groundwater Management Act (GMA). Read more Image Pagination … 1 2 … Next › Next page Last » Last page
Arizona Water Factsheets … Did You Know? March 14, 2025 Navajo County, located in northeastern Arizona between Coconino and Apache counties, comprises two distinct geographic regions: arid and desert-like mesas, plateaus, and buttes in the north and mountainous piñon-juniper and ponderosa pine woodlands in the south. About 54% of Navajo County residents live in rural areas that depend on domestic groundwater wells for water. Read more Image
WRRC Recognizes National Groundwater Awareness Week March 14, 2025 The National Ground Water Association’s (NGWA) annual observance of Groundwater Awareness Week is March 9–15, 2025, and is an occasion in which to remember a major but hidden water resource. Read more Image
NGWA 2025 Darcy Lecture Considers Ancient Groundwater Feb. 14, 2025 Did you know that most of the Earth’s groundwater is over 12,000 years old? The WRRC and the U of A Department of Hydrology & Atmospheric Sciences co-sponsored a Darcy Lecture on Living Fossils: Ancient Groundwaters in the Anthropocene, given by Grant Ferguson on February 5, 2025. Read more Image
ADWR Releases SDRs for 14 Groundwater Basins Dec. 5, 2024 If you’re curious about the water use conditions in your area, you might find details in the 2024 Supply and Demand Reports (SDRs) created by the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR). Read more Image
WRRC Director Submits Groundwater Comments to PCAST July 22, 2024 The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has formed a working group to consider opportunities and challenges related to our understanding and stewardship of America’s groundwater. Read more Image
WRRC Grad Student Highlighted in Water Resources Magazine Jan. 5, 2024 Simone A. Williams is a WRRC graduate research associate and Director Sharon B. Megdal chairs her dissertation committee. Williams’ research was recently featured in the November/December 2023 issue of Water Resources IMPACT, a digital magazine that highlights the achievements of water management professionals. Read more Image
ADWR Releases First Seven Groundwater Basin Assessments Dec. 8, 2023 The Arizona Department of Water Resources recently released the first seven supply and demand assessments for the state’s groundwater basins. The department is required by a state law signed in 2022 to complete a supply and demand assessment of each of Arizona’s 51 basins every five years. Read more Image
Saving Groundwater at Schools Jan. 15, 2021 Gasps of excitement and broad smiles are common when students explore the groundwater system using APW’s 3D student models. APW is very excited and eager to expand this success through a multiyear grant from Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR), which provides funding to educate West Valley students on Arizona’s groundwater conditions. Read more Image
Transboundary and International Groundwater Topics Fill Events Calendar Sept. 18, 2020 The Permanent Forum of Binational Waters is hosting the US-Mexico Transboundary Groundwater Conference, “Innovation and Creativity: Strategies for Unprecedented Challenges,” October 14-15, 2020, via Zoom. Cohosts include Texas A&M University and the Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua. Read more Image
Today We Celebrate 40 Years of Groundwater Management June 15, 2020 Forty years ago today, on June 12, 1980, water managers in Arizona took a monumental step toward addressing severe groundwater overdraft in the State's most populous regions with the passage of the Groundwater Management Act (GMA). Read more Image