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State designates aquifers 'natural infrastructure' to boost funding for water supply, flood control, wildlife habitat

As severe water scarcity becomes an increasingly real and dire prospect for Arizona, looking south to Sonora offers important insight.

Restoring natural infrastructure, such as beaver habitat and the wetlands it creates, could shield communities from damaging floods, remove toxins and high sediment loads from water, and reduce the apocalyptic effects of megafires.

The Santa Cruz River may be dry but it has come alive with people who are making a seasonal river cleanup a community conservation tradition in Tucson.

A dam’s design can affect its ability to withstand overtopping and resist failure.

Pitkin County is making beavers a top priority, funding measures that may eventually restore North America’s largest rodent to the Roaring Fork watershed.

Southwestern Colorado’s Blue Mesa Reservoir, drained by years of drought and a major release of water designed to aid a plummeting Lake Powell, is experiencing a rebirth this summer.

California’s Salton Sea offers a tableau of dead wildlife, toxic dust, and neglect. It was long in the making.

PFAS chemicals seemed like a good idea at first. Then tests started detecting PFAS in people’s blood.

Here’s what reservoir managers think about during storms, and how efforts to improve forecasting may soon be able to reduce flood damage