Mark L. Johnson
Water Woes XXIII-H2O Medley
The following is a medley of recent H2O developments with the Colorado River, Marana Water and Tucson Water. New-Colorado River...
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Mark L. Johnson
- May 14
- 2 min
Water Woes XXII-Cautious & Frugal
The water situation in the West has improved but it is only one year in a 24-year period whereby the Colorado River reservoir system has...
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Mark L. Johnson
- Apr 16
- 4 min
Water Woes XXI-H2O Hits The Fan
The media has pummeled us lately with plenty of water news. There is one significant Colorado River action that needs review....
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Mark L. Johnson
- Mar 12
- 2 min
Water Woes XX-Are We All Wet?
Snowpack (Aqua) Western US (1/22/23)-NASA Satellite Image Tortolita Alliance (TA) has been proactively keeping the community informed of...
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Mark L. Johnson
- Dec 28, 2022
- 9 min
Water Woes XIX-New Water-Issues & Who Pays?
This blog covers the current state of the Colorado River water supply and the urgent need to develop new sources of water (New Water) to...
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Mark L. Johnson
- Jun 15, 2022
- 1 min
Water Woes XVII-Disaster Looming
The Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) issued a press release in response to yesterday's Senate Committee on Energy and Natural...
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Mark L. Johnson
- May 11, 2022
- 1 min
Water Woes XVI-Is The Worst Yet To Come?
Tortolita Alliance (TA) attended the Local Drought Impact Group (LDIG) Meeting via Microsoft Team today (May 11, 2022). LDIG is a...
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Mark L. Johnson
- Feb 1, 2022
- 2 min
Water Woes XIV-Pause On DAWS
The following serves as an update to the previously reported Marana Water Designated Assured Water Supply (DAWS) analysis. Remember DAWS...
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Mark L. Johnson
- Jan 13, 2022
- 2 min
Water Woes XIII-Short-Term Drought Improvement
The Flats-Wild Mustang Trail Helpful Facts/Hints Blog Images-Just want to remind readers that you can click on any image (photo, graphic,...
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Mark L. Johnson
- Dec 11, 2021
- 1 min
Water Woes XII-Kyle Center Colorado River Shortage Interactive Story
The Kyle Center For Water Policy at Arizona State University's (ASU's) Morrison Institute has released an excellent interactive story...
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Mark L. Johnson
- Dec 6, 2021
- 2 min
Water Woes XI More Cuts
New 500,000 AFY Colorado River Water Cut First it was the Interim Shortage Guidelines (2007), then the Drought Contingency Plan (DCP)...
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Mark L. Johnson
- Nov 10, 2021
- 3 min
Water Woes X No Status Quo
Drought Status Tortolita Alliance (TA) attended the Local Drought Impact Group (LDIG) Meeting via Microsoft Team on 11/10/21. LDIG is a...
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Mark L. Johnson
- Aug 28, 2021
- 3 min
Water Woes IX-Water Study Session Report Part B
Water Is The Sustenance Of Life In Part A we reported that Marana Water has 2,804 acre-feet (AF) of water remaining in its Designated...
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Mark L. Johnson
- Aug 26, 2021
- 2 min
Water Woes VIII-Water Study Session Report Part A
Hope you had the opportunity to attend or watch (video stream) the Water Study Session on Tuesday. Jing Luo, Marana's new Water...
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Mark L. Johnson
- Jul 29, 2021
- 2 min
Water Woes VII-Water Poker
Thanks to the many Tortolita Alliance (TA) members who wrote letters and attended last night's Marana Planning Commission meeting...
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Mark L. Johnson
- Jul 25, 2021
- 3 min
Water Woes VI-ARIDIFICATION
Aridification is the process whereby a region becomes increasingly drier (arid) over a long period of time. Climate change and the...
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Mark L. Johnson
- Jul 12, 2021
- 2 min
Water Woes V-Tidal Wave
There has been a tidal wave of significant news in the Arizona water world. Here is the skinny. ADWR Tells Pinal County No More...
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Mark L. Johnson
- Jun 24, 2021
- 4 min
Water Woes IV-Plan For Worst Case
Salton Sea-Imperial County, California-2018 Over the last four months there have been at least three studies released regarding the...
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H. James Tripp
- Apr 25, 2021
- 3 min
Water Woes III-Shortages
This is the third part of the Water Woes Series which describes how the Drought Conservation Plan (DCP) Shortages are implemented. Lake...
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Mark Johnson & Jim Tripp
- Mar 23, 2021
- 2 min
Water Woes II-Sustainable not Assured
Did you read the recent water articles in the Arizona Daily Star by Tony Davis? Lets take a look: Article 1: Climate change could reduce...
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Mark L. Johnson
- Feb 19, 2021
- 3 min
Water Woes I
Lake Mead-41% Full White Paper 6-Alternative Management Paradigms for the Future of the Colorado and Green Rivers casts doubt on the...
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