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Hot nights during dry times: Measuring “hot droughts”

The summer of 2023 was one for the record books in Phoenix, across the southwestern U.S. and into Mexico, with record-breaking high temperatures on both land and at sea. Residents…

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Questions about water in Arizona? An innovative new chatbot is here to help

From water quality to water supply, Arizona residents have many water-related questions that can sometimes…

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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 large,…

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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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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. She is now…

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