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Tempe mulls bond election for dam replacements
Tempe is mulling a $10.5 million bond election to help pay to replace the rubber dams at Tempe Town Lake.
Committee OKs bill boosting disclosure of rural homes’ water supplies
Prospective home buyers deserve know the adequacy of a property’s water supply before making a purchase in rural Arizona, the head of an environmental group said Thursday.
Report says water challenges will test Arizona
A university think tank's new report says Arizona hasn't ignored its water needs, but a return of rapid population growth to desert cities will test the state, forcing consideration of significant changes in lifestyle, particularly for affluent residents.
Guenther removed as DWR head
Department of Water Resources Director Herb Guenther has been given his walking papers, and Assistant Director Sandra Fabritz-Whitney of Water Management Division has been named as acting department director.
Real water people are defenders of our rights, not bureaucrats
Arizona fought California and the feds to win 1.6 million acre feet of water supplies that we pump into the Valley each year. We can take on these fights and win, but not with a bunch of bureaucrats and watercrats.
Interior secretary visits Yuma desalting plant
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar says he is encouraged by the yearlong pilot program under way at the Yuma Desalting Plant.
Water watchers; Conservation group supplements ADEQ river-monitoring efforts
Volunteers spend a day every other month wading through one of the state’s few perennial rivers, collecting samples to monitor PH levels, E. coli bacteria, arsenic, nitrogen, phosphorus and water flows.
Arizona firm banks on farm troughs for commercializing algae
Arizona, with its sunny, warm climate has been hailed as the ideal region for algae biomass production. Proponents hope that algae, which can contain up to 60 percent oil, can some day squeeze out a petroleum substitute that could be produced at a price low enough to compete with natural gas.
Water: Feast and famine in early Phoenix
Irrigation helped make Phoenix an attractive place to live for many of the pioneers who were heading west to California in the 1800s. Mrs. Columbus Gray started toward California with her husband in 1868 in a wagon train from Arkansas.
