Tucson Water Department is celebrating its 125th anniversary, marking over a century of dedication to sustainable water ...

Create shade on the walls and windows located on the hot sides of the house. Try not to use plants when you do this. Creating shade that doesn’t use water requires more brainwork but may be necessary ...

You’re taking an epic road trip through the American countryside, taking in the sights of the cactus-studded Arizona fields of America’s Sonoran Desert, when you suddenly find yourself broken down ...

In the land of dry heat, clean water and cold treats turned these neighborhood stores into essential stops. Here's why water and ice stores endure.

Volunteers are monitoring natural springs in an Arizona wilderness to understand what the construction of a border wall will ...

Tucked away from humans in hard-to-reach places, hundreds of artificial water catchments—AWCs, also known as guzzlers—dot the arid Southwest landscape, collecting rainwater for wildlife to drink.

Researchers have created a superabsorbent hydrogel that can pull moisture from the air in greater quantities than previously reported materials, even in desert conditions. The new material opens the ...

A Tucson-based humanitarian group called No More Deaths has taken a great deal of fire for its practice of leaving behind water jugs in arid lands that are notorious for being flooded by illegal ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — A rare deluge of rainfall left blue lagoons of water amid the palm trees and sand dunes of the Sahara desert, nourishing some of its driest regions with more water than they had ...

Likely for the first time in its 61-year history, Desert Water Agency will have Desert Hot Springs residents on its board this fall after a recent redistricting process carved out two districts ...

Desert Water Agency, which manages water in the western Coachella Valley, will host two candidate workshops next week for people interested in serving on the agency's board of directors. Voters will ...