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Water/Energy Nexus

Water and energy are fundamental components of our 21st century life, but they can no longer be considered separately. Just as producing energy consumes water, pumping, treating and distributing water requires energy. In other words, water is an energy issue; energy
is a water issue. Called the water-energy nexus, this interrelationship is beginning to receive the attention it merits. View Documents.

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Environmental Flows and Water Demands

This bulletin explains the water demands of the environment in the Central Arizona Region, an area that includes the Verde River, Agua Fria and Upper Hassayampa groundwater basins, as well as the Prescott Phoenix, and Pinal Active Management Areas (AMAs). Written by U of A WRRC. View Document. 

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Evolution and Evaluation of the Active Management Area Management Plans

Written by Sharon Megdal of the University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center, this study evaluates the Active Management Areas by describing the current status, stakeholder perspectives, and recommendations. 102 pages. View Document.

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Land Subsidence, Earth Fissures Change Arizona's Landscape

Mostly underground and out of sight, the effects of groundwater over-pumping and declining water tables are difficult for many people to envision, much less conceptualize. The most apparent and tangible manifestation of excessive groundwater pumping seems to be the political and public policy debates the issue provokes. In other words, the most obvious effect of groundwater overdraft in Arizona is the Groundwater Management Act.
With the increasing occurrence of land subsidence and resultant earth fissures in certain areas of the state, the consequences of dropping water tables become distinct, physical and sometimes dramatically visible. Land subsidence and fissuring provide tangible evidence that the over withdrawal of groundwater has geological as well as public policy consequences. Prepared by Joe Gelt, U of A WRRC. View Document.

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Managing the Interconnecting Waters:The Groundwater-Surface Water Dilemma

States confront a difficult and complex task when defining and managing the hydrological connection between groundwater and surface water. The issue has broad management implications. At stake is the ownership and control of water, a driving issue in western politics. By Joe Gelt of the U of A WRRC. View Document.

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Understanding Arizona’s Riparian Areas

Report from the U of A Extension describing Arizona's riparian areas and their importance to the landscape. View Document.

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What is best plan for managing non-Active Management Areas?

When the state's urban dwellers think of rural water resources – if they think of them at all – they most likely think of recreational opportunities, like fishing, boating and camping. (See above.) Residents of rural areas of the state, however, are confronting a wide range of water issues, with ensuring sufficient supplies the most critical. Whatever rural water management strategy is adopted must reflect the physical, social and cultural characteristics unique to the non-urban regions of Arizona. Prepared by the U of A WRRC. 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