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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 01 2022, @01:38PM (1 child)
Covid and similar. A pandemic that kills some people, and causes fertility problems in other people seems made-to-order, doesn't it? Of course, anyone who suspects that a pandemic that just happened to start in the neighborhood of a virus research lab that just happened to document gain of function that just happened to look exactly like the current pandemic are nothing but conspiracy theorists.
Funny thing too. Bill Gates has been quoted many times, saying words to the effect "3 billion people need to die." Doing a search only finds "fact checkers" that deny that Bill ever said anything like that.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 01 2022, @08:22PM
Runaway! On the internets! Doing his own research! Fascinating!
Seriously, you old coot, drop the conspiracy theories, and do your part. Slough off that mortal coil, so we can harvest your water, Dune style.