2016
Our 2016 annual report summarizes key successes we’ve made and a refined vision that charts a path to ensuring our vibrant communities in the West exist in balance with nature.
2017
Jon Goldin-Dubois offers perspective on President Trump’s rollback of environmental protections and what the West can do to defend and advance the protection of land, air, and water.
2017
This report provides immediate actions and longer term solutions for addressing Lake Mead’s falling water levels and for ensuring that Arizona’s agriculture, cities, Indian tribes, economy, and environment thrive in a future with less water.
2016
WRA is working to ensure that electricity rates are smart for our wallets, our environment, our health, and our economy.
2016
This study provides important information to the Verde Valley community on how wells in the area impact river and stream flow and on opportunities for well users to manage their water use to help keep rivers and streams healthy.
2015
This first-of-its-kind report focuses on the extent to which water connection charges are encouraging watersaving design in new construction and landscaping before ground is broken.
2015
In this study, Western Resource Advocates evaluated the revenue-generation potential and the water, electricity, and natural gas savings that public entities can realize using performance contracting in the Colorado River Basin states.
2014
Identifies five innovative solutions that could eliminate Western water shortages stemming from the over-taxed and stressed Colorado River and meet the water needs of the West’s business, agricultural and growing population through 2060.
2014
This report presents a credit-based carbon dioxide emission rate reduction program for existing power plants including model regulatory language.
2013
This report articulates why and how Western utilities can achieve conservation synergy by integrating water and energy efficiency programs.
2013
Practical methods for community organizations to advance energy efficiency and on-site renewable energy.
2012
Domestic wells’ impact on Arizona aquifers and streams is not well quantified but important to water providers, cities and counties in meeting future water needs. This report provides a replicable methodology to estimate the conservation potential of domestic wells in the Sierra Vista Subwatershed.
2012
Using case studies, this report highlights the close ties among energy, drought, and water use in the Intermountain West; clean energy policies that reduced the energy sector’s water use and exposure to drought; and, finally, recommendations for mitigating the impact of future droughts on the West’s energy sector.
2012
This report shows that for the first time in 20 years, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the electric power sector have leveled off and have even begun to decline in the Intermountain West.
2011
In this document, we highlight regulators’ and utilities’ efforts to integrate water into resource planning.
2011
The enormous amounts of water used to generate electricity aren’t being taken into account when utilities make plans to meet future energy generation needs. This report lays out the facts of energy’s water costs and recommends ways to address them.
2011
This report examines two options now confronting the West and how they could play out: the region chooses to invest in modernizing the grid moving toward a clean energy future, or it continues to spend money on the grid in a business-as-usual manner.
2011
Local governments can reap the rewards of using solar energy by incorporating creative photovoltaic (PV) solar systems into public infrastructure.
2010
This report by Western Resource Advocates and Environmental Defense Fund illustrates why legislation is needed to curtail the risk climate change poses to western water supplies and highlights the water-energy nexus. The report provides detailed measures to include in a well-designed national climate and clean energy policy that will safeguard the West’s water.
2010
A thorough analysis of the water conservation activities of 15 communities in Arizona. The report looks at seven criteria to see what measures are effective in implementing community -based water conservation and why.
2010
A tree planting program designed by WRA for Phoenix, AZ can reduce energy demand, increase quality of life, and serve as a template for other communities.
2010
One out every four electricity customers in the nation gets their power from electrical co-ops or small electrical utilities. This report focuses on how these suppliers can create cost-effective, energy efficiency programs with robust community participation.
2010
A close review of economic data reveals that potential economic benefits of oil shale are far different than what proponents claim.
2009
Planning, Building, and Living Water-Smart strategies and model case studies for the arid Intermountain West.
2008
To ensure the benefits of clean energy are fully realized, Westerners and resource managers must work together to develop the transmission network needed to link wind, solar and geothermal energy to existing grids and to ensure they have equal footing with fossil fuel sources. Some of the key planning principles to achieve this are outlined in this publication.
