CALS | WRRC | Index Arizona Water Resource Fall 2009 The Arizona-Israeli-Palestinian Water Management and Policy Workshop (AzIP for short), a Water Resources Research Center project that was two and a half years in the planning, focused on critical water issues of the three arid and semi-arid regions. Arizona Water Resource Summer 2009 An increasingly frequent urban sight (although not in Arizona and the West) green roofs demonstrate a new meaning and purpose for roofs. Roofs, a hitherto taken-for-granted, inauspicious urban feature, are being adapted to take advantage of the natural elements of water, sun, soil and vegetation, to achieve environmental benefits. In the process a new word is coined: roofscape. Arizona Water Resource Spring 2009 Despite its reputation for indulging in water-wasting ways or perhaps because of this reputation people take note when Las Vegas makes a special effort to conserve water. Las Vegas is viewed as the prodigal son of cities, much lauded when it takes up the good cause of water conservation after its profligate ways.