Impact Water - Arizona

Rural Groundwater Resilience Workshops

Bringing together experts, local leaders, and residents to address critical groundwater challenges through community-driven solutions.

The 2024 application period is now closed.

If your community is interested in a groundwater workshop tailored to your community’s needs, stay tuned for our next round of submissions.

Overview

The Arizona Water Innovation Initiative Impact Water - Arizona program at Arizona State University, in partnership with the Arizona Institute for Resilience at the University of Arizona and the Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy at the Lincoln Institute, will collaborate with local leaders to host a series of Rural Groundwater Resilience Workshops.

The focus and scope of the issues that each workshop will address will be defined by the local community to ensure they are relevant to each community’s specific groundwater issues. The program will be intentionally flexible and designed to fill resource gaps. Workshops will be customized and offer expert training on a wide range of groundwater management topics, strategies, tools, data development, and education. The workshops will provide space to engage on relevant, local groundwater issues, and to empower communities to lead solutions towards their own local groundwater challenges.

Workshop goals

Eligibility

Any individual or group representing the following entities:

Governments and government agencies (municipal, county, state, or tribal)
Community and civic leaders
Non-profit organizations
Economic or community development groups
Water/irrigation districts
Watershed partnership groups
Groups of unaffiliated community members (residents, business owners, etc.)

Eligible communities must:

Be located within Arizona
Have groundwater depletion concerns
Be committed to forming or collaborating with local groups to build diverse representation of stakeholders for the workshop.

Learn more

ASU/UA/Babbitt Center webinar

Explore the workshop goals, eligibility criteria, and application process. Learn how these workshops will provide training and access to expert resources on a variety of topics, including best practices and tools, data development, and strategy implementation. Also, hear how local actions in groundwater management are making a real impact in Arizona.

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Sulphur Springs Valley workshop

Watch our previous workshop in action. In this workshop, we used exploratory scenario planning as a tool for decision-making under high uncertainty. Watch the full-length film or trailer here.

Film screening & panel discussion

On the evening of August 21st, over 50 residents, water experts, farmers, ranchers, and collaborators attended our film screening and panel discussion of Water & Agriculture in the West: A Community Takes Charge at the Willcox Theater.

Thank you to all who attended and shared interest in this documentary. Your dedication and hard work made the success of this workshop and film possible.

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