by Melissa | Aug 22, 2018 | Environment
SunZia power lines would destroy wetlands, kill birds, opponents say by Claire Caulifield | KJZZ The SunZia power project faces a new objection, this time from an environmental group that fears the high-voltage transmission lines from New Mexico to Arizona will...
by Melissa | Aug 19, 2018 | Environment
Santa Cruz River in jeopardy if international sewage pipe ruptures again, experts fear by Nancy Montoya | Arizona Public Media Some residents in Santa Cruz County are warning that the pipeline carrying raw sewage from Mexico into the United States could rupture as it...
by Melissa | Aug 19, 2018 | Environment, Government
Arizona’s plan to withdraw years worth of ‘banked’ CAP water lagging by Tony Davis | Arizona Daily Star By most accounts, the Arizona Water Bank is a monument to foresight and a national model for how to save water for the future. Since the late...
by Melissa | Aug 19, 2018 | Environment, Government
CAP-dependent Pinal farmers look for drought alternatives by Jake Kincaid | Arizona City Independent While there is support for preventing a drought contingency plan from devastating Pinal County agriculture, nobody is quite sure how to do it. But on one point there...
by Melissa | Aug 16, 2018 | Environment, Government
Why Pinal County could upend the southwest’s drought plan New federal estimates suggest serious water shortages on the Colorado River are closer than thought. While Arizona water users try to cooperate on a conservation fix, one group of farmers stands in the way of...
by Melissa | Aug 16, 2018 | Environment, Government, Marana
Costly option likely as Marana looks to treat contaminated water by Evan Schreiber | Tucson News Now Tucson News Now For the first time, publicly, the town of Marana is laying out options for treating its water system filled with unregulated, contaminated compounds....