Information about this year’s Water Resources Research Center conference is frontpage news in this edition of the Arizona Water Resource. The 2003 WRRC…
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Arizona is growing and developing in leaps and bounds, with major building projects considered for outside Prescott city limits, the Chino Valley area,…
Recently, Ken Seasholes, Director of the Tucson Active Management Area, was a guest lecturer at the graduate seminar, Arizona Water Policy, which I teach with…
There have been eighty-eight Town Halls to date. The eighty-eighth was held in Prescott on April 9-12, 2006, and addressed “Arizona’s Rapid Growth and…
Depending upon the perspective, whether hydrological or legal, the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming or the Colorado River Compact might be considered the…
The Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District (CAGRD) was created by an act of the Arizona Legislature in 1993 to provide groundwater replenishment…
When I give introductory talks about groundwater management in Arizona, I note that the linchpin to our approach to reducing groundwater overdraft in the…
Historically, harvested rain water provided water for drinking, landscape watering, and for agricultural uses. Once urban areas started to develop, centralized…
Skiing requires snow; snowfall depends upon atmospheric conditions. Simple and obvious as these statements are they raise a complex question: what effect will…
A multistudy research program has investigated how consumers respond to the urban forest in central business districts of cities of various sizes. Trees…
Abstract. Forty-eight street segments were paired into 24 highand low-shade pairs in Modesto, California, U.S. Field data were collected to calculate a…
The southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico have generally dry climates and rapidly growing populations. Both Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora…
A 6-page "how-to" guide on the basic principles of rain barrel water harvesting and information about installing your own system. This guide was…
Keywords: water harvesting; integrated site design; microbasins; swales; french drains; gabions; water tanks; mulch; design examples, subdivision, commercial…
Obesity levels are high and increasing worldwide. Being overweight is linked with increased death rates and contributes to a wide range of conditions,…
