Water

Phoenix wants the community to help come up with ways to combat air pollution as part of the latest “Innovate PHX” hackathon.

As President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team prep to regain the White House, critics are concerned about how they’ll handle water conservation in the West. But a key Arizona tribal ally of President Joe Biden believes the next administration is ready for the task.

The Transcanyon Waterline, the only system providing water to residents and visitors of the Grand Canyon’s South Rim, is facing more water restrictions. Officials on the ground are looking to prevent a public drinking water shortage.

Arizona’s water agency has a plan to conserve water by converting agricultural land for other purposes.

Inside a cramped room at a Las Vegas resort, leaders from five federally recognized Southwestern tribes came together during the annual Colorado River Water Users Association conference.

Every year, SRP cleans a section of the Salt River canal system by relocating the fish, draining the area, removing debris and silt and performing repairs. This year’s cycle, from November to February 2025, involves cleaning up close to 10 miles of the 131-mile canal system.

More than a century ago, the Gila River was lush and full of life. And the people who farmed around it, the Akimel O’odham people, were thriving. But settlers moved in, laws changed and they lost the water on the river — and their livelihoods with it.

Arizona’s water agency held a public hearing Nov. 22 on the Willcox water basin, the last step before the agency can create a groundwater protection area and restrict pumping in the basin.

Water coming from the Colorado River serves many people. However, negotiations on which states will use the resources has been a major point of discussion.

Grand Canyon National Park is under mandatory water conservation measures as of Tuesday morning.