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  • City of Gilbert Water Conservation Specialist Lisa Hemphill (right) helps Charles Buerger set his irrigation controller.
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  • Round Valley rancher Sam Udall readies for a days work on the X-Diamond Ranch with owner, Wink Crigler.  Crigler’s X Diamond Ranch is one of several operations that are incorporating river ecology and watershed management into their work along the Little Colorado.  You need water to ranch and if you want to keep the water around, you have to be careful the way you ranch.
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  • Kevin Hauser removes a rock from his sweet cornfield in Camp Verde.  Hauser farms about 1,200 acres along the Verde, on parcels strung out from Camp Verde all the way to Chino Valley.  He relies heavily on the river, taking water from the Eureka Ditch, one of the oldest irrigation systems still operating.  He has followed the arguments about drilling wells along the Verde and about habitat.  “A lot of people feel helpless about what to do,” he said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s Prescott or a construction company pumping water ahead of you. You’ve always gotta be watching upstream.”
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  • Agua Dulce Creek, at headwaters of the San Pedro River, Sonora, Mexico. The lessons of Rancho Los Fresnos and of other projects along the San Pedro are lessons that can translate to most any desert river system. Protect the watershed, focus on doable projects, involve land owners and users, preserve wildlife habitat and, wherever possible, find a way to keep at least a little water.
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  • John Benninger uses maps to explain why Pine, Arizona has water shortages, especially during the summer months, when summer homes are full.
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  • Las Vegas Valley Water District Conservation Aide Dennis Gegen videos water runoff from sprinklers at an apartment complex in Las Vegas.
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  • Eddie Hunter opens the valve on his 500-gallon truck mounted water tank so he can pump it into his 5,000-gallon storage tank at his home outside of Ash Fork.  Playing in the tree while Hunter transfers the water is his daughter, Sierra.
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  • Under the watchful eye of his mom, Anakin Everhart plays with the water while the tub is being filled for his nightly bath.
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  • A visitor hikes along the shore of Lake Powell just before Glen Canyon Dam.  The water level on Lake Powell is down over 100 vertical feet and this entire area would be under water if the lake were at its high level.
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  • Water runs into a recharge basin at the The New River-Agua Fria River Underground Storage Project (NAUSP).
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  • Portrait of irrigator Raul Rodriquez in a Waymon Farms fennel field.  The field is located south of Somerton, Arizona.
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  • Lake Powell's Wahweap Marina at sunset.  Lake Powell sits at 48 percent of capacity, 101 feet below its full elevation of 3,700 feet above sea level
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  • A Cliff Swallows returns to its mud nest attached to the underside of a pedestrian bridge on the Western Canal in Tempe.
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  • Samuel Adams Jr. enjoys a late afternoon swim in the Verde River. It was the first time he had ever been camping with his dad.
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  • After planting Cottonwood seedlings, Eric Lomahaptewa sprays Marc Poleyestewa with the pressure driller they used to bore the planting holes into the ground.
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  • Doug Duncan, a fisheries biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, checks his net for a Gila topminnow.  After identifying one Duncan commented, “I haven’t heard of topminnow being here (north of San Lazaro, Sonora) since 1997.”  The Gila topminnow, that is now endangered, was once one of the most common native Arizona fish.
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  • The All-American Canal runs through the Imperial Sand Dunes west of Yuma on its way to the Imperial Valley.
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  • Synlawn employee Jaime Moreno installs turf in the backyard of Glendale resident E. Normand Blanchette.
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  • In the bathroom of the Whitehair home, Greyhatt fills bucket after bucket with water used for daily grooming.  Homes are built with modern conveniences in hopes that one day they will have running water.  The Bureau of Reclamation estimated that the total economic cost to haul water on the reservation is about $113 per 1,000 gallons.  A Phoenix homeowner pays about $5 a month for as much as 7,480 gallons.  “We're talking about things a lot of people take for granted,” said Ray Benally, director of the tribe's water resources department. “It's about our quality of life. The lack of clean, potable water has an effect on people's health.”
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  • Raymond Knight works in the Grand Canyon during the week, helping with mule trains carrying supplies. On weekends, he hooks a trailer to his pick-up and carries water to family and friends. On one recent weekend, he ferried the tank back and forth between a ranch, where people had gathered to brand cattle.  “They use it up pretty fast,” he said. . Water haulers haul because the Navajo Nation lacks adequate, clean water and the infrastructure to deliver it. The reservation lies between three major rivers — the San Juan, the Colorado and the Little Colorado — but the tribe still relies mostly on groundwater. Drilling a well is easier and cheaper than building a pipeline.  Not all the wells produce usable water. Many dry up in a drought. Windmills break down, often for weeks at a time. As a result it's not uncommon for people to drive 30 miles or more to find water.
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  • The Dugi family (from right: Brian, Adam and Renaldo) play while waiting for 55-gallon drum to fill at the Grey Mountain water station.  Dugi fills his drums 3 to 4 times a week to water his livestock and makes the 70 mile round trip to Flagstaff weekly for their drinking water. .
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  • Sharon Williams holds a family photo of her parents, Mark and Annie Tsosie surrounded by their children, who were all raised without running water. “People in Phoenix have it made. They have water for grass, they can step in a shower any time they want, they never have to wonder if they have water,” said Williams.  “If they had to come up here and live like us for a day,” she said, with only a trace of taunting in her voice, “they wouldn't make it.”.
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  • Ethel Whitehair ran out of water again over the weekend, she emptied every bucket and pot, drained the plastic barrels lined up outside her front door.  The community well at the chapter house was closed until Monday. Water from another well at a nearby windmill could supply the sheep, but it was untreated and made Whitehair's skin itch. And so Whitehair waited as she had so often during her 87 years on the Navajo Reservation, waited for someone to bring her water.  “She stays by herself for long stretches of time and then we have to come and haul the water” said Amy Yazzie, Whitehair's daughter.
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  • Jonathan Greyhatt and 70,000 other Navajos haul water daily or weekly to meet their basic needs. The Navajo Nation faces an almost unfathomable water crisis, one that has persisted so long; that it has wormed its way into the routines of life on the nation's largest Indian reservation. Easing the crisis will require decades of work, billions of dollars and the patience to cut through the politics of Western water.
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  • The Dugi family work cattle on their ranch at Ward's Terrace.  Tribal officials acknowledge they may never provide full running water to every home. The reservation is just too big, the ancestral lands too widely spread. A more practical goal is ensuring that water haulers can find clean sources within shorter distances.
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  • Brian Shorty washes at the Red Lake windmill trough while hauling water for his grandfather’s sheep.  The hose is connected to and filling Shorty’s trailer mounted water tank..
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  • A portrait of Greg Peterson, the Urban Farmer, in his backyard shower. The water is heated by solar panels and Peterson uses environmental-safe soap and shampoo products so the grey water can be used to water his gardens. Since purchasing his home in 1989, Peterson has transformed his third of an acre residential landscape into an edible yard produces over a ton of food per year...
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  • Like many businesses that adopt sustainable practices, Hickman's Eggs did so first because the changes were financially sound. The family started recycling the water used to wash eggs about five years ago, funneling it into an onsite compost operation. That immediately saved the business as much as 250,000 gallons of water a month.
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  • Watson uses corn meal during an autumn blessing in his fields.  Watson gives thanks for their harvest and prays for a wet winter. “In Hopi we only pray for good longevity, good long life, and a healthy one also.  That is what we pray for.  We also pray a lot for rain, for without water nothing will exist. Plants grow with water, and we have to have water to live on.  Its just that.... good living, prosperity, good health, longevity, no sickness.... that’s just the Hopi way,” Watson said.
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  • Students of Arizona State University Professor Thanassis Rikakis have created a game that brings leaders together to discuss water sustainability. The game is played in a darkened studio, and participants assume roles of water providers, regulators and users. They move, physically, to start the game. The point is to force decision-makers to abandon their old ideas and see problems from a new perspective...
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  • Monument Valley draws tourists from around the world for its tours of the magnificent rock formations, but what brings the locals is the well at the Seventh Day Adventist mission. The well is a rarity, a reliable and clean source of water, clean enough that haulers will pass by other wells and make longer trips to fill up.  Lines form early each day, including the Elvis Saltwater and his children, Fidel and Javier, who wait for their 425-gallon tank to fill.
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  • Autumn Tsosie is bathed by her mom, Freida Pete while visiting the Tsosie Coyote Canyon home, a summer gathering spot for extended family.  Outside, five other grandchildren, lineup to take turns at the basin. Shampoo, rinse, and no repeat. Same basin of water. If it holds up long enough, it'll be used to wash hands.  “We know how to conserve, we know how to get by with less,” said Sharon Williams.
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  • Desert tortoise #634, a 30 to 40 year-old female, was found while searching for juvenile tortoises in the Tonto National Forest. Arizona Game and Fish Turtles Project Coordinator Cristina Jones and Wildlife Specialist Audrey Jones are conducting the desert tortoise survey.  One of the greatest risks to desert species is fragmented habitat, when cities, canals, fences, freeways, even a dirt road in the forest chop up landscape that once let indigenous species roam freely in search of the sparse food and water sources. "There are eight times as many road miles in national forests as on the interstate freeway system," said Matt Skroch, executive director of the Arizona Wilderness Coalition. "A lot of them might be dirt, but just a de-vegetated strip can act as a barrier."
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  • The Colorado River from Desert View at Grand Canyon National Park on Aug. 18, 2022. Declining water levels in Lake Powell threaten the river’s flow through this prized natural wonder.
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  • Sustainability is a movement that’s changing the way people think about the planet.  It’s changing the way people live.  And it’s happening all across Arizona.  Sustainability is a way of using Earth's resources today in a way that protects them for the next generation. It’s a movement of the people.  Few places in Arizona illustrate the principles of sustainability like the Quarter Circle U Ranch outside Apache Junction, where energy, land and water are used in a way that protects them for the next generation.  The ranch’s collection of solar panels and 30 golf-cart batteries, which soak up electricity from the panels, power everything at the ranch, even the air-conditioning. .
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  • After being up all night for Hotevilla’s Basket Dance, Sarah and her granddaughter, Serena Honanie eat hominy stew for breakfast.  The Basket Dance is an annual Hopi tradition celebrating the end of harvest.  “Corn is very important, my family belongs to the corn clan, all the way back to our grandmothers, we belong to the corn and water.  When I was growing up, I grew up to corn,” said Sarah Honanie.
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  • Jeff Dollente, a zanjero with the Imperial Irrigation District, opens a gate on the Redwood Canal north of El Centro, California, on June 1, 2022. Dollente moved 119-acre feet of water during his shift. The district enjoy’s the largest share of any on the Colorado, and the majority of California’s allocation.
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  • Washing - Katherine Smith, who lives 22 miles from the nearest paved road, washes herself from a bucket that she heats on her wood-burning stove.  Smith, like other resistors, has rejected relocation with its modern conveniences of running water, electricty - and as Smith puts it - "a highway to the doorway."
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  • Tiah Honanie’s clan relatives; her sisters, her aunties and her grandmothers make qomi for her engagement procession.  Qomi is ground sweet corn, sugar and water.
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  • Assisted by his brother, Paul Keams washes himself with water mixed with herbs - a solution he later drinks.
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  • Paul Keams drinks water during his Blackening Way.
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