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Local Water Utility Operations

01 Local Water Utility Operations · 53 edit slice
15
orgs
53
activities
3
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 15 organizations and 53 activities — WATER UTILITIES ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA, SUN CITY WEST PRIDES, Inscription Canyon Water Company, MT TIPTON WATER COMPANY and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Community-Led Systems Change", run by 13 orgs.
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shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
Arizona 100% · 15 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 15

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where the money comes from

funders already active in this field

Funders named as a funding source on these orgs' own materials. The count is the number of orgs in this slice that cite them — higher means a funder with demonstrable commitment to the field.

APS Foundation 1
Corporate
Arizona Water Infrastructure Finance Authority (WIFA) 1
Government
Fry's Rewards Program 1
Corporate
Pima County, Arizona 1
Government
SCW Foundation 1
Foundation
USDA 1
Government
Water Quality Assurance Revolving Fund (WQARF) 1
Government
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Community-Led Systems Change
44
1
Collective Action for Water Resilience
3
Collaborative Conservation Partnerships
1
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

Arizona Corporation Commission Government
shared by 4 orgs
Arizona Department of Water Resources Partner
shared by 3 orgs
ADEQ Government
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) Government
shared by 2 orgs
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Government
shared by 2 orgs
Central Arizona Project Partner
shared by 2 orgs
ACC Government
shared by 1 org
ADWR Government
shared by 1 org
Agri-Business Council Partner
shared by 1 org
Agri-Business Council of Arizona, Inc (AGCA) Partner
shared by 1 org
Agri-Business and Water Council of Arizona Partner
shared by 1 org
American Cancer Society Partner
shared by 1 org
American Public Power Association Partner
shared by 1 org
Apache Junction Water District Partner
shared by 1 org
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) Government
shared by 1 org
Arizona Department of Water Resources Government
shared by 1 org
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

scale of the field

rollup metrics

Aggregated scale claims from orgs in the slice. Treat as a floor, not a ceiling — many orgs don't publish these numbers, so totals underrepresent real reach. Extreme outliers (often unit-mismatches upstream) are filtered out.

1.9M
People served
from 4 orgs
149
Partner organizations
from 4 orgs