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Severe drought and mandatory water cuts are pitting communities against each other in Arizona:
As the climate crisis intensifies, battle lines are beginning to form over water. In Arizona -- amid a decades-long megadrought -- some communities are facing the very real possibility of losing access to the precious water that remains.
Outside the city limits of Scottsdale, where the asphalt ends and the dirt road begins, is the Rio Verde Foothills community. Hundreds of homes here get water trucked in from Scottsdale, but those deliveries will end on January 1, 2023.
That's because last summer, for the first time ever, drought conditions forced the federal government to declare a tier 1 water shortage in the Colorado River, reducing how much Arizona can use.
[...] "We are what I call the 'sacrificial lamb' for the bigger areas," Irwin told CNN. "In my opinion, look somewhere else -- we need to be able to sustain ourselves."
The scarcity of water in the state is pitting small towns against fast-growing metropolitan communities.
[...] Arizona's population growth and extreme drought have increased demand for water in limited supply. Kathleen Ferris, a senior research fellow with the Kyl Center for Water Policy in Arizona, says water scarcity in the state has resulted in the "haves" and the "have nots," and likened the coming water battles to the days of the Wild West. "Once you have your water rights, you defend it," Ferris said. "That's the way it works."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by drussell on Friday April 01 2022, @08:46AM (2 children)
Build utterly unsustainable communities in the middle of a desert and be surprised with what now?!
Build on reclaimed swamp land and it ends up flooding? What now?!
Over and over and over again....
Once again, another quelle suprise!! Duh!
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday April 01 2022, @09:19AM (1 child)
meanwhile, in Australia:
New South Wales Planning Minister Anthony Roberts has announced an independent review of development in flood-prone parts of the state. It comes in the wake of the destruction of 2,800 homes in floods that ravaged the state's Northern Rivers. About 5,500 more were damaged.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/nsw-planning-minister-announces-independent-review-into-development-in-flood-prone-areas/536605 [weatherzone.com.au]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Funny) by drussell on Friday April 01 2022, @09:30AM
So "simple" to compute, right?
Maybe they just need to somehow magically build some geinormous water intertubes to slurp excess wawa from the squishy-squashy, extra-wet areas to then splurt it out onto the extra dry areas?
Better use the cloud!