A new report from Arizona’s three public universities is offering suggestions for ways the state can manage water loss as it faces supply shortages.
The researchers looked at how managers could capture water currently lost in the environment.
They also profiled Arizona’s 51 groundwater basins, how rain and snow contribute to the state’s water supply and how climate change could negatively affect that supply in the future.
The report finds capturing even a small fraction of the 95% of precipitation lost to processes like evaporation could bring significant increases to supply, and that the state needs to expand its monitoring of surface and groundwater.
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