GENERAL INFORMATION

An overview of water issues in the Sonoran Desert is found in Nancy Laney's Desert Waters: From Ancient Aquifers to Modern Demands published by the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in 1998. A general introduction to water issues in Arizona can be found in Ensuring Arizona's Water Quantity and Quality Into the 21st Century, a background report prepared by the University of Arizona for the Seventy-first Arizona Town Hall, October 26-29, 1997. A Water Issues Primer for the Tucson Active Management Area published by the Southern Arizona Water Resources Association (SAWARA) in 1983 is a helpful, although somewhat outdated general introduction to the basics of water in the Tucson area. SAWARA has published a series of informative newsletters on a variety of Tucson area water topics, including recharge, CAP, constructed wetlands, water supplies and wastewater. These are available on a Web site. SAWARA also has a video presenting an overview of Tucson's water situation.

Where to Get Free (or Almost Free) Information about Water in Arizona (1998 edition) is a directory of sources of water information, including Web sites. Where to Find Water Expertise at Arizona Universities (1998 edition) is a directory of sources of water information at Arizona state universities. Both are by Barbara Tellman and are available free from the Water Resources Research Center (WRRC), The University of Arizona and are in searchable format at the WRRC Web site. This Web site also contains water information as well as links to water agencies.

Chapter 2: LOOKING TO THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE PRESENT

Much of the information about the history of Tucson Water came from Lynn Baker, unofficial Tucson Water historian. Much of the information about the history of wastewater in Pima County came from John Schladweiler, unofficial Pima County Wastewater Management Department historian. A valuable source of information about the history of water development and technology in Pima County is a 1986 Master's thesis (University of Arizona) by Doug Kupel titled Diversity Through Adversity: Tucson Basin Water Control Since 1854. C.L. Sonnichsen's Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City, published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1982, is a detailed history of Tucson. The history of the Santa Cruz River is discussed in Arizona's Changing Rivers: How People Have Impacted the Rivers by Barbara Tellman, Richard Yarde and Mary Wallace, published by the WRRC, The University of Arizona in 1997. More detailed information is available in Arizona Stream Navigability Study for the Santa Cruz River, a report by SFC Engineering and others for the Arizona State Land Department in 1996. The history of the Central Arizona Project was documented by Rich Johnson in The Central Arizona Project, published by the University of Arizona Press in 1977. The history of opposition to the CAP was documented by Frank Welsh in How to Create a Water Crisis, published by Johnson Books (Boulder) in 1985.

Chapter 3: IN SEARCH OF ADEQUATE WATER SUPPLIES

General information about groundwater is available in a booklet from the American Institute of Professional Geologists titled Ground Water Issues and Answers, available from the Arizona Geological Survey office in Tucson. Edward Davidson's Geohydrology and Water Resources of the Tucson Basin, Arizona (USGS Water Supply Paper; 1939-E, 1973) has a description of the basics of local geohydrology.

Numerous government documents are available, some of which are listed below. Most of the local government documents and consultant reports done for local government are available in the Tucson Public Library's government reference section in the downtown library.

Tucson Water's Planning and Technical Services Division provides periodic reports on the aquifer and withdrawals, titled Annual Groundwater Withdrawal and Use Report. Tucson Water also provides an annual report, Annual Static Water Level Basic Data Report: Tucson Basin and Avra Valley, Pima County, Arizona. Tucson Water published a useful booklet in 1998, Status of the Aquifer, in conjunction with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Arizona Department of Water Resources. An example of a consultant's report with useful information is by Mark Cross, Hydrogeologic Constraints on Continued Groundwater Withdrawals by the City of Tucson. (Errol L. Montgomery and Associates, Inc. 1998). Tucson Water also produces long-term planning documents such as Tucson Water Resources Plan: 1990 to 2100. (Produced by CH2M Hill for Tucson Water. July 3, 1989). and Tucson Water 50-Year Operating Plan: Planning Assessment Report. (Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. February 1994).

CAP, General

An overview of the CAP is available in the Arizona Department of Water Resources' Governor's Central Arizona Project Advisory Committee's report (prepared with assistance of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation), Description of the Central Arizona Project. (April 1993). The Central Arizona Water Conservation District has several brochures, maps and informative materials about CAP. The fall-winter 1993 WRRC. Arroyo, "Long-Awaited CAP Water Delivers Troubled Water to State" also provides information. Analysis of the possibility of extending the CAP canal to the Green Valley area can be found in Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., in association with Errol Montgomery and Associates, Inc., Sahuarita-Green Valley Area Central Arizona Project Water Use Feasibility Analysis and Delivery System Optimization Study, prepared for Arizona Department of Water Resources, TAMA, September 1998.

Recharge

A discussion of issues related to recharge in the Tucson area and an assessment of current and potential projects using CAP water can be found in the Regional Recharge Plan, written by the Institutional Policy and Advisory Group as part of the Regional Recharge Planning Process coordinated by the Tucson AMA of the Arizona Department of Water Resources (Institutional Policy and Advisory Group, 1998). This planning process began with the technical and background work completed by the Regional Recharge Committee, Technical Report, Arizona Department of Water Resources Tucson Active Management Area, September 1996.