In a sense, the on-going drought conditions in the Southwest have made promoting water conservation a whole lot easier.
Over 20 years of chronic drought… alarmingly low surface levels at the two great Colorado River reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell… yet another middling snowpack in the Rocky Mountains. All decidedly bad news, to be sure. But if your job is convincing people to conserve water, the task has become a whole lot easier of late.
Welcome to Water Awareness Month 2022. As part of the effort to keep the public aware of the many ways they can help conserve water, ADWR and our many WAM partners have organized a month of events promoting wise water use.
Arizona Water Awareness Month is an annual outreach campaign to spread the word about the value of conserving the Southwest’s most precious natural resource, water.
April 20: An interactive overview of water-related activities at Arizona's state parks
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The WAM website, first launched in 2011, overflows with ideas and activities to help you learn more about water conservation. Water Awareness Month itself began in 2008, when Arizona’s Governor signed an Executive Order that designates April as Water Awareness Month.
Water providers and conservation experts around the state contribute information to the website about water-related activities, events, tips, and resources. The WAM website is full of ideas and activities to help Arizonans learn more about water conservation and become more aware of our state’s most precious resource, water.
Arizona has been very successful in improving water efficiency and conservation around the state. Despite a population increase of six million residents since 1957, Arizonans are using about the same amount of water now as we did then. Yes, changes in Arizona’s economy – from largely rural to largely urban – have played a big role in that conservation. But so has our concerted conservation efforts, anchored by the creation of the Arizona Groundwater Management Act of 1980.