Water is the most crucial natural resources—it impacts the economy, the environment and without it, we’d probably be dead. So, why not learn about how to protect it?
The Central Arizona Project, the University of Arizona, and a handful of other organizations—including KXCI and the Southern Arizona Water Users Association—are hosting a forum on water sustainability this Friday, and they want the community to really pay attention.
“We’re on the cusp of major decisions about water and it’s critical that a large sector of the population is involved,” says Mitch Basefsky, CAP external communications for Pima and Pinal counties, in an email. The groups especially want youth to be a part of the conversation. “Achieving a sustainable future for Tucson and our environs will require continuing communications and collaboration among a broad range of stakeholders and interest groups.”
“The perspectives and involvement of our younger advocates is welcome and necessary to the long-term viability of our community,” he adds. “This forum presents a wonderful opportunity for youth to learn and contribute to the water future of Southern Arizona.”
Director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources Tom Buschatzke will be the keynote speaker, followed by a panel with moderator Sharon Megdal, director of the UA College of Agriculture and Life Science’s Water Resources Research Center.
The forum is happening Friday, Nov. 6 from 7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Tucson Convention Center’s Leo Rich Theater. It is a free event, and there will be free breakfast and parking. Couldn’t hurt, right?
You have to RSVP, so call 621-4311 or email wrrc@email.arizona.edu.
This article appears in Oct 29 – Nov 4, 2015.
Water ‘sustainability’ : 1. Ban Californians from moving here to retire. 2. License all private Pools and Spas and charge for the water per pool per month. 3. Limit new constructed homes size of Pools/Spas. 3. Ban new grass lawns require taring up old ones. 4. Surcharge Golf Courses to pay more for each hole irrigated beyond 18 holes and ban new ones. 5. Force Oro Valley to close holes beyond 18 at El Con. and close 1 of their four swimming pools.
Or start planning a storm drain system that captures rainwater runoff and stores it in underground cisterns, above ground tanks, or puts it in the aquifer for later use. Why this wasn’t done 50 years ago is beyond me.
Joe Bloom A much easier solution would be to maintain a Demo Mayor and Council. Taxes would increase, people would get nothing and the town would disappear. Oh look that already is our plan.
Then why are we funding the CAP? It provided no benefits?
Hopefully, Arizona has the vision, common sense and morals to manage wastewater responsibly. Injecting it into groundwater, rivers and crops is reckless. http://crossbowcommunications.com/sewage-mismanagement-killing-millions-of-people-annually/ Applying sewage to land (biosolids) is contributing to surface water contamination and the contamination of air and water with deadly and unstoppable pathogens. The US EPA fails to account for the risks associated with wastewater treatment and disposal. The EPA has exported this flawed perspective around the world for the gain of private industry. We now have an unstoppable Alzheimer’s disease epidemic surging around the world. Decide for yourself.
Tucson’s refusal to allow the use our vast supply of water and everything about the ‘no growth environmenatlists’, (aka communists) agenda is the primary reason we are the fifth poorest city in the country and will be number 1.
The vast majority of these radicals are stupid enough to say – we’re a desert – we don’t have enough water. You idiots, every hear of aquifers, or maybe what watershed is? Do you have a clue where the largest fresh water aquifer in the world is?
Phoenix has it right.
191 cubic miles of underground water in mid eastern to north eastern part of AZ. It has been taken from the citizens “Wilderness” designation. Don’t you dare drink it.