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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

The Colorado River at Horseshoe Bend near Page, Arizona. About 39 percent of Arizona's water comes from the Colorado River. Photo taken by Monica Milberg with Arizona Sonora News.

Arizona prepared if water shortages hit

Monica Milberg April 6, 2017

If Arizona runs short of water, it has a plan. As one of the driest states in the country, it has been suffering from droughts for centuries. “Here in Arizona, we store water underground...

Photo of Lower Colorado River by Arsenikk on Wikimedia Commons

As big snowpack melts with spring in the Rockies, is drought reprieve in bloom?

JS March 23, 2014

[First in a continuing look at the drought and its implications for Arizona] It snowed hard all winter in the Rocky Mountains, and come spring that's always been a sign that once that huge snowpack melts,...

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