Water Conservation for Kids # 2 Date and Time: Wednesday, June 20th, 9:30 (participation limited; first come-first serve) Venue or Location: Bisbee Boys & Girls Club Community Partners: The University of Arizona Cooperative Extension’s WaterWise and Energy Smart Program, the Bisbee Boys & Girls Club, the City of Bisbee Description: An interactive workshop for kids […]
Of Water and Pathways: A Short History of A Resource Water sustains life, and has a significant role our state’s history. The myths and stories of our indigenous tribes are rich with its references. The Chemehuevi Origin tells of Ocean Woman rolling dry skin from her body to make the land. The Hopi re-enact their […]
Water Reclamation Meets Bisbee’s Copper Mining History Date and Time: Tuesday, June 26th, 5:30 – 7:00 pm Venue or Location Name and Full Address: Copper Queen Library Community Partners: Freeport Minerals Inc., Copper Queen Branch Description: For the last decade, Freeport Minerals Inc., Copper Queen Branch, has been working on environmental reclamation of lands impacted […]
Water/Ways Mini Film Festival Date and Time: Saturday, June 30th 4:00 – 8:00 pm Venue or Location: Bisbee Royale, 94 Main Street Community Partners: The University of Arizona Cooperative Extension’s WaterWise and Energy Smart Program, the Bisbee Royale Description: The WaterWise Film Festival features films and documentaries on water management, water scarcity, and the economics […]
Environmental River Walk of the San Pedro River Date and Time: July 7th, 8:00 meet at the San Pedro House Venue or Location: San Pedro House, 9800 E. Hwy 90, Sierra Vista, San Pedro Riparian Conservation Area (participation limited, first come-first serve) Community Partners: Friends of the San Pedro River, San Pedro Riparian National Conservation […]
Water exists above, below, and all around us. Water regularly moves through a series of places, and is recycled back again! Much of the water we see and use started in the ocean. This water was moved by the energy of the sun and the pull of gravity to get here. It can take a […]
Visit the traveling Smithsonian exhibit Water/Ways at Fort Apache and Theodore Roosevelt National Historic Landmark! Please contact the Fort Apache Heritage Foundation for exhibit hours: 928-338-4625 or visit http://www.fortapachearizona.org/visit/ The Value of Water The Fort Apache water story begins where the East and North forks of the White River meet. The White River is crucial to White Mountain […]
Read more about Miami-Globe on the Water/Ways website. Dates: September 22 - November 4, 2018 Address: 150 N Plaza Circle, Miami, Arizona 85539-1629 Exhibit hours: Thursdays-Saturdays: 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., Sundays: 12:00 - 3:00 p.m. The mission of Bullion Plaza is "dedicated to preserving and presenting the culturally diverse history, the human experience, as well as exploring the […]
Not If We Learn from the Past... Whiskey’s for drinking, and water’s for fighting. The old quip about the West seems truer than ever today, as growth and climate change threaten our water supplies. The Colorado River is dwindling, rural wells are going dry, and rivers could vanish. But history shows that Arizonans can solve […]
Burton Barr Central Library Second Floor, College Depot Auditorium AZ H20 + Art with Jim Ballinger Hoover Dam is an iconic marvel of American engineering. Created to manage the floodwaters of the Colorado River, the dam continues to affect Arizonans’ lives daily. But the Hoover dam is rarely thought of as a significant work of […]
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