Episodes

  • Dry but Alive: Rethinking Golf's Green Lawns

    Dry but Alive: Rethinking Golf's Green Lawns
    Jul 24 2024
    Arizona has long been a hotspot for golfers looking to keep up their game as weather elsewhere turns cold. But, for just as long, the state has been working to limit water use by golf courses. How much of a part does golf play in Arizona's water issues?
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    19 mins
  • Taming the Colorado

    Taming the Colorado
    Jul 17 2024
    The Colorado River is the most dammed waterway in the US, but what was it like before? We go back to the battle over Parker Canyon Dam and how it changed Arizona's rights to the river's water forever.
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    23 mins
  • Season 3 Trailer

    Season 3 Trailer
    Jul 5 2024
    Why do so many Saudi Arabian-owned farms grow alfalfa in Arizona? How bad is our current water crisis compared with historical droughts? The new season of AZPM's hit water podcast answers these questions and more. Join us on July 17 for all new episodes.
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    1 min
  • Navigating murky waters: how laws and regulations can hinder tribal initiatives

    Navigating murky waters: how laws and regulations can hinder tribal initiatives
    Nov 3 2023
    In this Tapped episode, Katya Mendoza and Paola Rodriguez explore the history of the Havasupai people's fight to stop uranium mining near the Grand Canyon and why they worry about water contamination.
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    26 mins
  • A generational battle: How a tribe’s concern over mining contamination on ancestral homelands brought Biden to Arizona

    A generational battle: How a tribe’s concern over mining contamination on ancestral homelands brought Biden to Arizona
    Oct 27 2023
    For people who visit or call Grand Canyon National Park home, the water issues mainly come around moving water up to the rim where the homes, hotels, and other businesses sit. But, head downstream to one of the most remote tribal nations in America, and the water issues are very different. The Havasupai people's land sits in the canyon, surrounded on all sides by the park. They're not worried about pumping the water up. Their worries are about what trickles down. Upstream from them sits an area where uranium mining was once plentiful. And that atomic-age history is causing concerns about water quality.
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    28 mins
  • An unprecedented water line in an unprecedented place

    An unprecedented water line in an unprecedented place
    Oct 18 2023
    In this Tapped episode, Danyelle Khmara delves into the Grand Canyon's water infrastructure challenges and the extraordinary Transcanyon Waterline upgrade, highlighting the complexities of delivering clean water in this iconic natural wonder.
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    25 mins
  • When a reservoir is more than stored water

    When a reservoir is more than stored water
    Oct 11 2023
    Lake Powell is the reason Page, Arizona exists. The city of 7,500 started as a work camp for those building Glen Canyon Dam. Today, the lake and dam provide the it with water and electricity, and lake-related business accounts for about three-quarters of its taxbase. So how does the ebb and flow of the lake's main source of water, the Colorado River, affect life in Page?
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    19 mins
  • Water and housing redux

    Water and housing redux
    Oct 4 2023
    The story of a home development in Cochise County has taken a second big turn since we published Episode 4 of this series, so Summer Hom is back with the latest on this ongoing saga.
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    27 mins