Tag: Arizona
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Drought-declaration judgment day in Arizona
Weather-wise, it is one of the most anticipated events of the fall season. Will they? Or… won’t they? Will the Governor’s Drought Interagency Coordinating Group recommend to Governor Ducey that he add the approaching “water year” to the State’s lengthy string of official drought years? Or will the panel recommend that the official dry spell…
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How a purple school bus brings clean drinking water to Navajo Nation
Photo: Mark Henle/azcentral.com Video (see link below): Mark Sorensen, Star School co-founder, talks about an old school bus that was converted into a solar-powered water desalination system to purify well water for residents on the Navajo Nation. Many in the Navajo Nation don’t have running water and the well water often isn’t safe to drink.…
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Who controls the water? Arizona agencies slug it out
The Hoover Dam holds back water on the Colorado River to form Lake Mead, an important supply of water to Southern California, Nevada and Arizona. Photo: Irfan Khan, Los Angeles Times 2015 The turf war pits the Arizona Department of Water Resources, which manages water issues statewide, against the agency operating the Central Arizona Project,…
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Water Hole: No running water on Navajo Nation reservation
Navajo Nation members have scarce access to running water in Monument Valley, which spans Arizona and Utah. (Photo by Ethan Millman/Cronkite News) On the outskirts of Monument Valley, touching the Arizona-Utah border, a water well is encased in a brick building behind a barb-wired fence. A few cattle graze nearby, mooing to occasionally pierce the…
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Kingman is finding ways to reuse treated water
The City of Kingman’s water treatment facilities already reuse solid waste for compost and are looking for a way to recycle the liquid waste, too. Water is a dwindling resource for the ever-exploding desert population, and it’s time to find a way to make the best of what we have. The same system that separates…