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Groundwater - U. S. National Park Service This report summarizes the Sonoran Desert Network’s analyses of weather, groundwater, and springs data from Water Year 2022 in Chiricahua National Monument Monitoring these important natural resources at the park helps us understand changes over time
The Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan | Pima County, AZ All five elements, along with fiscal analysis, were critical in forming a viable land management plan for Pima County The SDCP identified the types of development that improved the tax base, and the relationship of these with the sewer service area
A Framework for Effective Conservation Management of the Sonoran Desert . . . Today, however, California’s Sonoran Desert is at increased risk from development, habitat fragmentation, water diversion and overdraft, global climate change, invasive nonnative species, nitrogen deposition, a modified fire regime, and a myriad of land use impacts
Lithium mining a Threat to the Yaqui Nation’s Water rights The Yaqui authority filed a report–along with the Water Protector Legal Collective and the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) –warning that the Mexican government plans to extract lithium in the ecologically-sensitive Sonora Desert
Groundwater Management in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona: The Importance . . . Agricultural water use is close to 70 percent of statewide water use, but the municipal use is growing rapidly Many communities in Arizona rely heavily on groundwater, although more recently (since the early 1990s) the Central Arizona Project has delivered Colorado River water to Central Arizona
Western Sonoran Desert Water Resources In the western Sonoran Desert (WSD), water-reliant ecosystems are likely to be increasingly impacted by hydrological and ecological drought (Arizona State Climate Ofice, 2022; Crausbay et al , 2017)
Locating Isolated Waters in the Sonoran Desert Water scarcity in these regions is expected to worsen as deserts are predicted to experience a 20% decline in precipitation, a 400% increase in the number of extreme heat days, and an increase of 4 to 9° F in average temperature before the end of the century (Drake et al , 2015)
Gendered Socio-Ecological Impacts of Mining in the Sonoran Desert . . . Two types of dynamics are analyzed at two different scales: a) socio-economic impacts on income, employment and social and domestic re-organization in the households and the community; and b) ecological impacts on water and land at the upper watershed level, where the mining case is located
Water Resources - Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection The conservation of our water resources is an important component of Sonoran Desert conservation Through smart land-use planning and strong local policies, we advocate for the conservation of existing water resources and the riparian habitat these water resources support