Water Resources

Sometime next month, for the first time, the federal government is likely to declare a water shortage at Lake Mead.

SASKATOON – Researchers used synchrotron light to determine that plant waste could be an ideal, cost-effective method for preventing arsenic in mine waste from polluting our water.

Officially at the airport, 1.64 inches in 2021 after getting only 1.62 in 2020.

The North American monsoon has returned to Colorado, and the rain has brought some much-needed relief to some of the driest parts of the state — after multiple back-to-back years of almost no summer rain.

Here in the desert, we can always use some rain — and Armin Sorooshian can make it happen. Sort of.

The punishing heat wave continues in much of the West. However, for some in places in the Southwest including Arizona, the long-awaited monsoon will bring milder temperatures and rainfall.

The University of Arizona recently launched a new game, in which the public can estimate rain measurements during the monsoon season and win prizes. 

A decades-long drought is taking its toll, causing water to disappear and causing a snow drought in the western part of the United States.

University of Arizona researchers will track emerging contaminants in soil surrounding groundwater resources.