ASUA ARCHIVE - NEWS AND ARTICLES OF INTEREST
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Yavapai County Water Issues
PHOENIX -- Three Yavapai County communities have agreed to consider changes to their plans to import groundwater from a regional aquifer in order to protect the Verde River.
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The Dam
This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries regarding a pond on his property. It was sent by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Quality, State of Pennsylvania. This guy's response is hilarious, but read the State's letter before you get to the response letter.
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Self-Contained Recycling System
Stuttgart, Germany — Overcrowded mega-cities without adequate water supplies or sewage disposal facilities, frequent flooding and extreme drought are problems that a new urban infrastructural concept can help solve. It has a flexible, water-saving vacuum sewerage network.
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Award for Water Treatment Plant
Scottsdale Honored As a Crown Community: Chaparral Water Treatment Plant earns national award The city of Scottsdale was recently presented the 2007 America's Crown Community award for the Chaparral Water Treatment Plant by American City & County magazine.
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Navajo Nation Endures Water Crisis
BY:
Shaun McKinnon -
The Arizona Republic
TONALEA - Ethel Whitehair ran out of water again over the weekend, emptied every bucket and pot, drained the barrels lined up outside her front door. The community well was closed until Monday.
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The Dam
This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries regarding a pond on his property. It was sent by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Quality, State of Pennsylvania. This guy's response is hilarious, but read the State's letter before you get to the response letter.
SUBJECT: DEQ File No.97-59-0023; T11N; R10W, Sec. 20; Lycoming County Click here to read more |
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State Pressed on Water Deal
Optimism permeated the ballroom at Caesars Palace, where, a few days before Christmas last year, Colorado River users from seven states allowed themselves to believe they had achieved some sort of peace with a drought plan that ended years of bickering.
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Clean Colorado River Alliance
"The Colorado River serves as the lifeblood of the American West providing drinking water to more than 25 million people and irrigation water to support 2 million acres of agricultural production. We can no longer focus on water quantity alone; we must address water quality as well if we are to truly meet the needs of the state.
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Safe Drinking Water
As a result of extensive regulations, guidelines and water quality testing, drinking water supplies in the United State are among the cleanest and safest in the world. Yet despite efforts to standardize the cleanliness and quality of drinking water nationwide, the quality of water served by individual systems varies over time due to changes in the water source from which it is drawn and the treatment it undergoes.
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ADEQ Director Awards Grant
ADEQ Director Steve Owens Awards $32,000 Water Quality Improvement Grant to Pinetop-Lakeside to Reduce Pollution in Rainbow Lake
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Director Steve Owens today announced that the department has awarded a $32,000 water quality improvement grant to the Town of Pinetop-Lake to help reduce pollution in Rainbow Lake. Click here to read more |
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REPORT: Cities, Firms Fouling Arizona Water
Arizona cities and industries repeatedly emptied polluted water into rivers and washes during 2005, exceeding clean-water rules by as much as nine times the legal limit, a new report said Thursday.
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Central Arizona Project
The Central Arizona Project recently awarded $15,000 to nonprofit groups involved in water education in central and southern Arizona. Recipients of the awards are: Arizona Humanities Council ($3,000); Pima County Cooperative Extension ($2,500); Southern Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair ($2,500); Phoenix Zoo ($2,000); Water Resources Research Center, University of Arizona ($1,500); Central Arizona Environmental Education Center ($1,000); Fountain Hills Museum and Historical Society ($1,000); Arizona Environthon ($500); the Melvin E. Sine Elementary School ($700); and Tucson Chapter Hydrological Society ($300). Click here to read more |
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Medieval Colorado River Drought, A World Event
University of Arizona researchers recently found evidence of an epic medieval drought occurring along the Colorado River. More persistent and long-lasting than any drought on record in the region, the 60-year, 12th century drought reduced Colorado River flows to 15 percent below what is now considered normal for 25 years. Click here to read more |
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Tucson Water aids Marana counterpart during pump failure
Tucson Water stepped in to provide water to 700 homes in Marana's Continental Reserve area after a pump on a Marana Water Department well failed. Marana Water Department Director Brad DeSpain said an automated alarm system signaled the volume of water being pumped at the Continental Reserve well had dropped dramatically.
No customers lost water service, but some may have noticed a loss of pressure. However, the water in the reservoir serving the area dropped rapidly, and Marana asked Tucson Water to open an interconnect between the two water systems.
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Artificial Recharge
Overpumped, overdrafted and in various states of depletion, Arizona's aquifers have suffered the consequences of past failure to manage this vital resource. Meeting a rapidly growing demand for water in the desert southwest has never been easy; but advances in groundwater pumping technology in the first half of the 20th century made satisfying water demand easier than ever before.
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Proposing a G.V. Water Authority
Optimism permeated the ballroom at Caesars Palace, where, a few days before Christmas last year, Colorado River users from seven states allowed themselves to believe they had achieved some sort of peace with a drought plan that ended years of bickering.
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Mexican High Court to Review
Mexico's Supreme Court will review a case that tests the constitutionality of the 1944 Water Treaty between the US and Mexico. In a September 4 decision, the high court agreed to hear a legal complaint pursued by farmers from the northern border state of Tamaulipas.
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Superfund Program Water Issues
Researchers with the Superfund Basic Research and Training Program at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy's Center for Toxicology have launched a $15 million study into the toxic effects of hazardous wastes in Arizona 's groundwater.
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Arsenic in your drinking water
What is arsenic? Arsenic is a toxic chemical element that is un evenly distributed in the earth's crust in soil rocks and minerals.
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Just the facts for consumers
Facts, questions, answers and articles about safe drinking water.
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2007 Leadership Session Schedule
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San Pedro River Cleanup
The friends of the San Pedro River , Bureau of Land Management, docents and volunteers met last Saturday to pick up trash along the San Pedro River in recognition of National River Cleanup Week.
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