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Chino and US Fish & Wildlife Service cooperate on Verde

Chino Valley and the USFWS signed a Memorandum of Understanding detailing their intent to cooperate in avoiding impacts to the upper Verde River. View Document.

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Verde Watershed Focus Area Plan

The primary purpose of the Verde River Watershed Focus Area Strategic Plan (Verde River Watershed Plan) is to coordinate and cooperate with other agencies, organizations, and stakeholders to identify, implement, and facilitate policies, programs, projects, and management practices that support productive and diverse populations of native species. Ensuring continual and sufficient base flows in the Verde River and its tributaries that will maintain healthy watershed and aquatic conditions is a vital part of this effort. This plan is not intended to replace other ongoing efforts and plans that involve the Verde River or its watershed, but to augment those efforts and to serve as a guide for the FWS Arizona Ecological Services Office (AESO) to work with our partners to focus on activities that promote the long-term goals of this watershed plan. Authored by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. View Document.

DAILY DROPLET

  • "Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners."
    Mark Udall

  • "Water is the driver of Nature."
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • "When the well is dry, we know the worth of water."
    Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1746

  • "...and since flow of information is to spirit what water is to life, we'd best think about how to keep the pipes free and unclogged."
    Raphie Frank

  • "In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference."
    Rachel Carson

  • "We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one."
    Jacques Yves Cousteau

  • "Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water."
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine

  • "Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be separated from water. No water, no life. Period..."
    Robert Fulghum

  • "It's the water. Everything is driven by the water."
    Mike Thompson

  • "Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over."
    Mark Twain