Join the Nebraska Water Center and Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District from February 2 – 7, 2025, as we experience urban water management, winter agriculture, and transboundary aquifer management. We’ll go behind the scenes and meet the experts to get a first-hand look at water and natural resources in the American Southwest.
- $1440 per person, single occupancy room
- $1365 per person, double occupancy room
Registration includes: Meals, five nights of hotels, commercial transportation, on-board refreshments, and activities from 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 2, through 12:00 pm on Friday, February 7. There will be one meal on your own during the tour. The tour will begin and end in Phoenix, Arizona.
To register online and pay with a credit card, visit go.unl.edu/WaterReg. If you prefer to pay with a check, you can register via mail by printing the registration form linked above.
We’ll learn from experts in Phoenix, Maricopa, and Yuma and see first-hand how water and natural resources are managed in Arizona. The tour gives you exclusive access to research facilities, test farms, and tribal management of water and natural resources. We’ll also experience a day in the life of the farm workers that produce 90% of the United States’ winter vegetables – including the 5:00 a.m. start time and breakfast burritos in the field.
The tour will begin in Phoenix, Arizona, where we’ll spend a day and a half learning about urban water management, wastewater treatment, and natural resource management in desert cities.
We will then spend a day and a half in Maricopa, Arizona. Hosted by the USDA’s Arid Land Agricultural Research Center, we will visit tribal farming operations and meet with researchers to discuss new findings in desert water management.
We will wrap up the tour in Yuma, Arizona. Hosted by the Yuma Center of Excellence for Desert Agriculture and the Yuma County Agricultural Water Coalition, we will experience winter vegetable production and learn how Colorado River water management is crucial to our country’s food security.
A draft tour agenda is linked above.
You will need to book your own transportation to and from Phoenix as it is not included in the tour registration costs. Additional instructions for booking your own travel are linked above.
Tour check-in is on Sunday, February 2, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the Hampton Inn in Gilbert, Arizona.
