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Building on the Old with New Designs and Practices to Maximize Water Savings

The drought in Arizona is causing businesses and residents alike to carefully evaluate their water use. And the City of Mesa is no different. With a goal of saving an additional five percent in response to the City of Mesa Water Management Shortage declaration that was enacted on May 18, all City...

Water Wise Gilbert : Celebrating Conservation

In Gilbert, our Water Conservation Team works with Homeowner Associations, churches, schools, businesses, multifamily apartments, and other commercial water users to help them use water wisely. Through our Water Wise Gilbert program, participants receive a customized water budget for their...

Water Efficiency Makes Business $ense

From time to time, Arizona Water Facts gives space for water providers in the State to highlight their innovations in their water conservation efforts. The City of Glendale Water Services Department now is offering water efficiency assessments free of charge.The City of Glendale Water Services...

Water Conservation Has Gone Virtual

Phoenix Water launched a digital education page to make learning from home convenient for everyone. The Water Education from the Cloud page, launched this summer, offers water conservation resources for all ages including activity books, games, learning videos for kids and adults, and lesson plans...

Grass-Cast: An Experimental Grassland Productivity Forecast Expands to Arizona and New Mexico

Every spring, ranchers face the same difficult challenge—trying to guess how much grass will be available for livestock to graze during the upcoming season. Since May 2019, an innovative Grassland Productivity Forecast known as “Grass-Cast” has been helping producers in both the Northern and...

City of Avondale - Small City with Big Water Solutions

Active Management Area (AMA) cities routinely build partnerships to make sure they can deliver safe, reliable and affordable water to their residents all day every day. The cities share the cost of building and expanding water and wastewater treatment plants and share underground storage and...

Using Technology to Accelerate Conservation

As Arizonans, we know how important water is to our communities. That is why we work together to conserve and protect our water resources. At Global Water Resources (Global Water) we take great pride in being a responsible water, wastewater, and recycled water utility and that’s why, like many...

The Past and Present of Arizona Irrigation

It might be easy to think of irrigation practices as modern commodities or technologies. Especially in Arizona, where the scorching desert heat makes keeping plants and crops healthy, particularly challenging. While irrigation practices are constantly evolving, some can be traced back to early...

Protecting Your Water

As we all work together to fight the spread of the coronavirus, Arizona’s water providers can take great pride in knowing they are playing a critical role in public health. It starts with the delivery of clean water to homes and businesses.So when it comes to the quality of water, there is no...

Bringing Home the Fun – Arizona Water Festivals Go Virtual

Creating excitement about learning is always the goal for Arizona Project WET (APW). Even with schools closed for safety during the pandemic, APW staff and student Water Educators stepped up to provide unique opportunities for students to learn about water in the comfort of their own homes.When we...

AMWUA Text Alert Takes Guesswork Out of Watering

An automated irrigation system waters your yard without you having to think about it – and that’s the problem. If you set your controller and then forget it, this convenient device can cost you money, waste precious drinking water, and weaken your trees and plants. Forgetting an irrigation...

Water Efficiently & Effectively

Did you know that in Arizona up to 70% of water is used outside the home? Considering this substantial water use, it’s no surprise that more landscape plants in Arizona die from overwatering than underwatering. By conserving water outdoors not only will you save water and money, but you’ll...

“Flushable Wipes” Are Not Flushable

While many people are having a difficult time finding and purchasing toilet paper, it is causing an existing problem to become an even bigger one. Despite what packaging says, flushable wipes are in fact not flushable. Only the three P’s belong in the toilet: pee, poo, and (toilet) paper. All other...

Smart Irrigation in Action

July is Smart Irrigation Month and with more than half of the drinking water in the Valley used outdoors for the primary purpose of irrigating landscapes, it may be time to learn how to optimize your automated irrigation controller for maximum efficiency. If an irrigation system is well managed, a...

Chase Down Leaks in Your Home during Fix a Leak Week!

In 2019, Governor Doug Ducey proclaimed the third week of March as Fix a Leak Week. It is a time to remind all residents of Arizona to check their household fixtures and irrigation systems for common household leaks including dripping faucets, broken irrigation sprinklers, and worn-out toilet...

Preparing for Arizona's Monsoon Season

Parts of the desert Southwest experience seasonal “monsoon” activities during the summer from approximately June 15 through September 30.We encourage residents to establish a four-step plan for monsoon season:Write and rehearse a family communication plan that identifies a meeting place and...

Exploring Arizona’s Amazing Waterworlds

Riparian areas and wetlands are the links between land and water. They are among the most biologically diverse ecosystems on earth and are thought of as "ribbons of life," networking across various landscapes and biotic communities.Within Arizona, local communities are finding ways to protect these...

Water Awareness Month 2018 Highlights

Our warmest thanks to all our partners in celebrating this year’s Water Awareness Month. It was a wonderful month celebration and we were so moved to see all our partners and their communities come together to celebrate. So, we are delighted to share a few highlights from Water Awareness Month 2018...

Take Action to Save Water & Energy in Commercial Buildings

Office buildings, schools, hotels, hospitals, restaurants, and other commercial and institutional facilities can use a significant amount of water and energy in their daily operations. In most cases, electricity or gas is used to purify and pump water to a facility, in addition to heating water. So...

Glendale’s Guide to Welcoming Wildlife to your Garden

The Sonoran Desert is one of the most ecologically diverse deserts in the world with more than 2,000 native plant species and hundreds of wildlife species. Special adaptations have allowed plants and animals to survive and thrive in this desert climate for thousands of years. Over the past...

Does Your Water Use Add Up?

Ever wonder how your water use adds up? Use the new Gilbert water calculator to see how much water your household needs. Compare the calculator’s results with your actual use to see if you have room for savings.Remember, water needs will vary depending on the size and type of the...

Putting Your Water Assets on the Map!

Water efficiency is becoming increasingly important to community water systems within Arizona from a resource management and economic perspective. Not only do these water systems serve residents year-around providing water for drinking, cooking, and cleaning but they also serve various businesses...

For all of us, "water awareness" means more than just conservation

By proclamation of the Governor in 2008, it is Water Awareness Month in Arizona.So, what do you suppose that means?On a personal level, being “water aware” almost universally means learning to conserve water. It is a precious and scarce resource, after all. As citizens of an...

Water conference at the University of Arizona dives deep into issues facing irrigated agriculture

Keynote speaker Clint Chandler of ADWR assures rural growers and residents that their issues are a top priority for Gov. Ducey: "We ask you to stay tuned."Irrigated agriculture in Arizona is a $17 billion-per-year industry in transition, according to speakers at a widely acclaimed...

Groundwater Management Act 1980 - Signing

Arizona's historic Groundwater Management Act of 1980

To the “end user” – the Tempe or Tucson homeowner turning on the tap to fill a kettle for a cup of tea – it is all just water. In composition, color and consistency, it is no different from the liquid pouring forth from taps anywhere else in the U.S.It is clear, clean and...

Smart Stormwater Management

Like most communities across Arizona, the Cities of Mesa and Glendale historically considered stormwater to be a nuisance that needed to be quickly eliminated through an expensive pipe and channel system. Today is different. Mesa and Glendale are shifting the stormwater paradigm and...

Lettuce help you: Community gardens may be running afoul of state groundwater-conservation law

The list of challenges to living sustainably can be lengthy.Conserving energy. Protecting precious resources, such as water, in times of scarcity. Buying locally. Thinking globally.It’s getting to be quite the to-do list for the citizen of good conscience. Everyone wants to live sustainably....

Arizona Project WET Aqua STEM Program

During back to school time, Arizona students will be excited to hear their teachers’ plans for them to learn about water in the upcoming year. Through Arizona Project WET‘s Systems Thinking Academy, teachers prepared to bring water into their classrooms, utilizing new Aqua STEM units, while...

At a ‘water summit’: Arizona golf-course superintendents gather to share best practices on water management

As a rule, industries with an economic reliance on a valuable resource tend to be extremely careful in how they use it.Farmers in Yuma County and elsewhere in Arizona, for example, have become experts in laser leveling fields, crop management and water-conserving irrigation techniques.The same is...

Living Classroom: AMWUA Plant Pages Come To Life

In a 3.2-acre space hemmed in by traffic noise, office buildings and warehouse construction sits a living classroom. The University of Arizona’s Maricopa County Cooperative Extension is a place to learn by doing – plant and nurture desert landscapes, grow vegetables and herbs, or create a rainwater...

Phoenix Water: Smart

The City of Phoenix began municipal water utility operations in 1907. Today, Phoenix Water treats and distributes tap water to 1.5 million customers daily, manages the city's sewer system, and handles wastewater treatment operations for 2.5 million residents in the Valley of the Sun. Our...

Introduction to Arizona Water Facts

Arizona’s legacy of carefully managing its water supplies over the years isn’t so much about preparing for drought. Not precisely.More than anything, it has been about Arizonans taking control of their own destiny. The years devoted to planning and investing from the creation of...