IN THIS ISSUE:
INHABITANTS, Egyptian Ambassador, APW, Colorado River Conference, Ken Slowinski
Upcoming Special Event: INHABITANTS Panel & Asynchronous Screening
As part of the WRRC’s Indigenous Water Dialogues, we are pleased to announce a special panel discussion of INHABITANTS: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World, as well as free screening for all event registrants. The film is a beautiful account of the role that Native communities have in shaping our broader approach to climate change adaptation as it explores the restoration of their traditional land management practices. Using both narrative and visual depictions of Native land stewardship methods in deserts, coastlines, forests, and prairies, INHABITANTS relates the personal histories of five Native American Tribes and how they have continued to exercise their self-determination to address the local and global challenges posed by our changing climate.

EVENTS
WRRC Special Event: Counter Mapping Articulates What is Between

Date: May 2, 2022
Time: 3:00 pm-4:30 pm Arizona Time
Location: Webinar Only

Speaker: Jim Enote, CEO, Colorado Plateau Foundation

As a lifelong farmer, land and water practitioner, natural resources manager, and museum director, Jim Enote has thought hard about maps and mapping by challenging how we think about, use, and view maps. Coming to us virtually from his home in Zuni, New Mexico, Jim will talk about his experiences with maps and new approaches to map-making. Counter maps appear from neglected spaces, forgotten peoples, intervals of crisis and rapture, and in the pattern languages of our lives.

Image: Rucha Chitnis
NEWS
Egyptian Ambassador Featured in Event on Egyptian-American Relations, Climate, and Water
 
The Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations and the University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Water Resources Research Center, and the School of Government & Public Policy are co-sponsoring the event, Celebrating 100 Years of Relations Between Egypt and the U.S., featuring Motaz Zahran, Egyptian Ambassador to the United States. After introductory remarks from CMES Director Anne Betteridge, Professor Thomas Vogly and Ambassador Zahran will have a fireside chat about this binational relationship and WRRC Director Sharon B. Megdal will discuss climate and water issues with the Ambassador. The event will start at 6:00 pm on May 10, 2022, following a 5:30 pm reception, and will be livestreamed for registrants who cannot attend in person. Additional details, including speaker biographies, are available on the event website. To register for this event, please email jellison@arizona.edu for a code, then register here.
Explore Groundwater in Nine-Part Video Series

Groundwater is abstract, difficult to understand, and impossible to see underground. For more than a decade, Arizona Project WET (APW) has worked to make this abstract, invisible water resource easier for students to understand through the use of models, hands-on activities, and a variety of images. But a picture is worth a thousand words, and a video contains thousands of pictures. APW is proud to introduce our nine-part Arizona Groundwater video series. Each video is less than four minutes long, with topics ranging from the basics of groundwater movement to the Groundwater Management Act and safe yield. These videos were made possible through the support of the Arizona Department of Water Resources and created in collaboration with Esser Design.
 
23rd Annual Law of the Colorado
River Conference
 
The Water Law Institute’s annual Law of the Colorado River Conference is back in person this year. The conference will be held May 19-20 in Santa Fe, NM. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Colorado River Compact. The two-day conference will feature experts from around the West and numerous backgrounds. The featured presentation, “New Mexico Perspectives on the Compact,” will be presented on May 19 by speakers Mike Hamman, New Mexico State Engineer, Estevan Lopez, Commissioner for New Mexico on the Upper Colorado River Commission, and Rolf Schmidt-Petersen, Director of the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission. The conference will focus on the past, present, and future of the Colorado River Compact and will feature speakers from various perspectives on the issue.

ADWR Chief Attorney Ken Slowinski Honored
 
Ken Slowinski, chief legal counsel to the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR), was honored on April 6 with the Michael J. Brophy Distinguished Service Award. Conferred by the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Arizona, this award acknowledges exceptional attorneys in the field of environmental and water law. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ken Slowinski’s award ceremony was delayed; the Arizona Bar announced his selection in January 2020, but the conferral and celebratory dinner were postponed until this year. Several of Slowinski’s colleagues spoke at the event, recognizing him for his outstanding work and the universal respect he has earned in his field. ADWR Director Tom Buschatzke could not attend the event, but emphasized in a video recording that Slowinski “is the embodiment of each and every one” of the essential qualities of Brophy Award recipients: honesty, integrity, courage, and compassion. For the past 33 years, Slowinski has worked for ADWR as a public servant, advocating for Arizona’s water future. He has announced his plan to retire this summer. The WRRC thanks him for his service to the state and for his willingness to share some of his expertise over the years.
WATER JOBS
UArizona Director, Cooperative Extension Job Listing
The University of Arizona seeks a strategic and innovative leader to be the next Director of the UArizona Cooperative Extension System (CES).


Please visit WRRC's website for a complete listing of water jobs & opportunities.
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