News & Press https://www.azwater.org/news/default.asp Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:56:01 GMT Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:07:00 GMT Copyright © 2025 AZ Water Association The NAU Review: How NAU and SRP are protecting Arizona’s natural resources https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=714571 https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=714571 Full  Article Link]]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:07:00 GMT Arizona Republic: How a new pipeline will help Mesa deal with Colorado River cutbacks https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=714400 https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=714400 Full Article Link]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:38:00 GMT ASU State Press: ASU organizations seek solutions to Colorado River shortages https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=714570 https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=714570 Full Article Link]]> Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:05:00 GMT KJZZ: More than $24 million to be used by AZ Game and Fish for Colorado River Basin conservation https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=692818 https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=692818 Full Article Link]]> Tue, 4 Feb 2025 14:07:00 GMT AZ Water in Green Living Magazine https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=675292 https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=675292 Green Living Magazine recently highlighted our annual conference in their June/July 2024 issue.
Full issues can be found here.]]> Wed, 5 Jun 2024 18:21:00 GMT AZ Water on Fox 10 News https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=675293 https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=675293 Watch as our Annual Conference and its Operator Competitions are showcased on the local news!]]> Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:27:00 GMT Drinking Water Week Resources https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=506261 https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=506261 here]]> Thu, 7 May 2020 23:05:25 GMT Continuity of Operations During a Pandemic https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=501443 https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=501443 Even during the coronavirus pandemic, water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs) cannot cease operations even for a moment. It remains critical, then, for WRRF managers to develop actionable plans to ensure continuity of operations despite potential staffing shortages and supply chain disruptions.

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]]> Mon, 13 Apr 2020 20:35:06 GMT New Water Bank Website Designed With The User In Mind https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=482224 https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=482224 By and large, website owners spend the resources necessary to improve their digital landing spot for one primary reason: To make the experience easier and more enjoyable for visitors. If a redesign improves navigation for visitors – if it gets them where they want to go and helps them see what they want to see easier and faster -- the likelihood of those visitors paying a return visit increases.

That is the thinking behind the recent redesign of the Arizona Water Banking Authority, the state agency that facilitates underground water storage in locations around Arizona.

Like most redesigns, the AWBA pages offer viewers a far more simple, readable and approachable home page that renders navigation far easier. But a big feature of the new website is its interactivity. It provides viewers with a simple-to-use map of Arizona’s long-term storage locations, as well as a wealth of easily accessible data.

In addition to allowing visitors to view AWBA credits at each storage facility, the interactive GIS map allows user to download the full data into excel.

The interactive map was designed for a variety of uses.

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]]> Wed, 18 Dec 2019 02:40:36 GMT NO SURPRISES: 2018 DROUGHT PREPAREDNESS PLAN ANNUAL REPORT MAKES FOR EXTREMELY DRY READING https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=430583 https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=430583 The latest volume of the 2018 Arizona Drought Preparedness Annual Report is available now and it shows that the 2017-2018 winter proved to be one of the driest on record with virtually the entire state receiving less than 50 percent of average precipitation.  

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]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:14:16 GMT Chromium levels in your Water and the News! https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=309622 https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=309622 Chromium levels in your water and the news

  

You might have recently heard stories in the media about Chromium levels in Phoenix water. The AZ Water Association membership is responsible for treating and distributing drinking water, and takes seriously the requirements to ensure that public health and safety expectation of our customers is met. In collaboration with the American Water Works Association and the Water Environment Federation (WEF), we work to promote appropriate regulatory standards, and work with decision-makers on how to best treat for contaminants.

The current drinking water standard or Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for Total Chromium is 100 parts per billion (ppb). Almost all of the water utilities in Arizona monitor Chromium-6 under the current Unregulated Contaminant Rule (UCMR); the most recent results ranged between 1.2 ppb and 11 ppb, after a quick check of water quality reports from the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, meaning that according to national standards, we are still well below dangerous levels.

For additional information and resources, click through to read azcentral's article on the topic that features AZ Water member Mac Gifford:http://bit.ly/2cVDLI0. If you have questions or concerns send us a message here on Facebook.

David Iwanski, Executive Director, AZ Water Association

]]> Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:04:21 GMT Arizona Officials Call for Tightened Limits On Lake Mead Water Use https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=292457 https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=292457 Officials: potential drought problems require collaboration between Colorado River basin states.


WASHINGTON - Arizona officials said May 17 it is time to end the gentleman's agreement currently governing states' use of water from Lake Mead and instead put tougher restrictions into law.


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]]> Sat, 4 Jun 2016 05:42:28 GMT Lead service line analysis examines scope of challenge https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=283432 https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=283432 AWWA PRESS RELEASE
Lead service line analysis examines scope of challenge
March 10, 2016

(DENVER) -- A new analysis published today by the American Water Works Association estimates 6.1 million lead service lines remain in U.S. communities, suggesting progress in lead service line removal over the past two decades but indicating an estimated $30 billion challenge remains.

For the complete press release from AWWA, click here.  

 

]]> Thu, 7 Apr 2016 18:47:57 GMT Op Ed from David LaFrance - Together we can get the lead out https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=283431 https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=283431 AWWA PRESS RELEASE

Op Ed from David LaFrance - Together we can get the lead out
March 11, 2016

By David LaFrance CEO, American Water Works Association

If there is one lesson to be learned from the Flint crisis, it is this: Our communities will be safer in the long run with no lead pipes in the ground.

That’s why the board of the American Water Works Association – recognizing our first core principle is the protection of public health -- voted unanimously on March 7 to forge on a path toward the removal of all lead service lines. AWWA believes that as water professionals and a broader society, we should seize this moment of increased awareness to develop solutions for eliminating all risks from lead in water.

 

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]]> Thu, 7 Apr 2016 18:34:27 GMT WEF, WateReuse Encourage Federal Role in Water/Wastewater Infrastructure Funding https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=283426 https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=283426  

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contacts:
WEF: Lori Harrison, 703.216.8565, lharrison@wef.org
WateReuse: Zachary Dorsey, 571.445.5503, zdorsey@watereuse.org 


WEF, WateReuse Encourage Federal Role in Water/Wastewater Infrastructure Funding
Rudolph Chow, Director of the Baltimore Dept. of Public Works represented the organizations at this morning’s Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7, 2016 – Rudolph Chow, Director of the Baltimore Department of Public Works, testified today on behalf of his agency, the Water Environment Federation (WEF), and the WateReuse Association at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing, “The Federal Role in Keeping Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Affordable.”

With more than thirty years of experience in the water sector, Chow is a proponent of surface and underground infrastructure renewal and has spent his career developing and implementing new and innovative programs aimed at protecting these systems while mitigating affordability issues. Testifying before Chairman James Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking Member Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and the other Committee Members, his remarks focused on three main points:


  • Affordability – The challenges communities are having with meeting their regulatory requirements with limited funds is a national problem;
  • Federal Funding of Infrastructure – Congress should provide robust support for existing and proposed federal funding and financing programs; and
  • Economic Benefits of the Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Programs (SRF) – at the Committee’s request, WEF and WateReuse recently conducted an analysis of the estimated economic impact generated by SRF spending in four example states, including taxes that return to the federal government and the employment and output from that spending. The four states—California, Maryland, Ohio, and Oklahoma—were chosen as a good cross-section of states across the nation that were representative of geographic size, population size, cost of living, rural/urban populations, and general age of infrastructure.

 

 

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]]> Thu, 7 Apr 2016 18:23:45 GMT Water advocates: Bill passed by Arizona Senate, House threatens San Pedro River https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=282561 https://www.azwater.org/news/news.asp?id=282561 SB1268 allows cities and towns in certain counties with groundwater pumping restrictions to opt out of rules. The bill awaits Gov. Doug Ducey's signature.

 

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