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Graduate student researchers addressing decentralized water systems with National Science Foundation support

Water infrastructure systems can be generally classified as centralized or decentralized. In much of the US, residents rely on centralized systems - those where both water and wastewater services are provided to customers by a…

ResearchWater security
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Water Literacy in the Desert: Aligning education with Arizona’s water future

Every drop of water holds immense value in Arizona, and the need for increasing water literacy continues to grow. The…

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Monsoon rains fall over a desert landscape

Hot droughts and summer floods are all in a day's work for the Arizona State Climatologist

Helping her parents set sandbags out around her childhood home to protect it from a flood is one of Erinanne Saffell’s core memories from growing up…

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Coalition building in Arizona’s water insecure communities

Community organizer Daniela Sherrill has worked on two successful efforts to raise the minimum wage for workers in both Coconino and Pima counties…

Public engagementWater security
Winter lettuce growing near Yuma, Arizona. ©Ted Wood via the Water Desk.

Crop change detection after drought shortage declarations in Arizona

The Colorado River is experiencing prolonged drought conditions, exacerbated by the regional effects of climate change, that have led to significant water…

Colorado RiverManagementResearchTechnologyWater supply
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What Arizona residents want to know about water

“Will we run out of water?”  “Where does our water come from?”  “Is our water safe to drink?”

These are just a few of the over 600 questions Arizona residents have asked us about water in our…

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