Arizona's growing rural groundwater crisis

With a mega drought across the West, Arizona is hardly the only state with water supply issues, but experts say it is unique.

[@kerryjones1257]

Maybe stop selling out water and land to the Saudi companies?!?!??!??

[@8ballwil]

Lawmakers and politicians in this state are too corrupt to do the right thing

[@jessicag4929]

A problem they created

[@page2386]

Mine dried up 3 weeks ago,Riverview Dairy is ruining the sulpur springs valley

[@eugenebdotson7363]

HOW YOU GOT HERE ! I'LL TELL YOU, OVER BUILDING ON STEROIDS !

[@midget_spinner8449]

It is a desert after all

[@chvron203]

Thanks for the laugh. The Arizona "legislature" is still trying to figure out if the election was stolen or not lol

[@harleyv1969]

Columbia River is a long way north but has a lot of water. We should be thinking about bringing water in

[@usaisnojoke]

Maybe start by STOPPING mega resorts like the water park Crystal Lagoon with their 80 MILLION gallon pool and all these stupid mega apartments being built. That's a start. But hey, this is America, land of the stupid morons.

[@mickmamahawkmickmamahawk5829]

Fool! The columbia is extremely toxic and is also dual water....salt and fresh. You do not take from one state to supply another. Maybe arizona should take the drought serious. Move! Stop building! Get rid of lawns.....but never take water from another state.

[@daver2067]

Bahahahahaha Sounds logical, let’s starve the ecosystem that the Columbia river is feeding. Stay thirsty my friends

[@ToddKesler]

Information is not ture. The well site shown are drip irrigation the round discs are sand filters for drip systems the lowest water use possible

[@3sbon]

Dumbest crisis ever

[@azuaraikrezeul1677]

i'm going to expect a lot sinkholes to pop up in arizona.

[@leonardsmith2198]

Arizona is the 48th State with an IQ to match.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

This is surely another disaster in the making. So Lake's Powell and Mead are both in decline as well as the aquifer! What happens when all three are no longer providing any significant water?? The state government talks about building a desal plant at the Sea of Cortez and piping water up from there. A big plant takes years to build and will still only provide a small amount of water relative to needs of the state. And despite these pending threats to water supply Arizona continues to encourage moving to Arizona and agriculture is going gang busters as mentioned in this video.

[@visitante-pc5zc]

Time to leave while property has some value. You don't wanna be the the last one to turn the lights off

[@erich84502ify]

Causes subsidence in California, overpumping

[@donaldcary7259]

Pretty much you’re f…

[@moneybags7064]

Great, lets start by restricting water to cali. It's all going to their lawns and avocado farms anyhow

[@rachellong145]

Why are our leaders incompetent

[@bobdelano6746]

How about all of the freeway trash !

[@derekoverhage9180]

What freeway trash? We got nothing compared to California.

[@mafinalmessagechangedaworl7131]

I think running out of water is a little more pressing than the highway trash

[@derekoverhage9180]

@@mafinalmessagechangedaworl7131 I’m still trying to figure out what freeway trash he’s talking about honestly. I take the 303 from surprise down to the i10 all the way to 7th street and I can’t say I’ve ever seen freeway trash in the last 7 years I’ve driven on that stretch of road.

[@chvron203]

Go pickup the trash then Bob. It's your community too.

[@bobdelano6746]

@@mafinalmessagechangedaworl7131 those folks trying help the water prob. Have been failing now for over 30 yrs. Maybe litter control is more up their alley!

[@bubbaredneck75]

Since the governments done such a bang up job managing everything else lets have manage water now......what can go wrong? And i live in cochise county

[@richardmanikowski5947]

We are now the leading provider in semi conductors. That takes a lot.of water. This is great for our economy, bad for water supply.

[@alksjda]

overbuilding in AZ, congrats.

[@RT-gq3bh]

Bruce Babbit has taken credit for the AMA for 40 years. Now this lady. Jimmy Carter did not support the appropriation for the CAP, but the majority of the US House and Senate did!!!! Including 35 California US House Representatives

[@RT-gq3bh]

And 2 California US Senators!! The Sec of the Interior had no votes! Cecil Andrus was a puppet of Jimmy Carter. When Carter was elected, the CAP was very close to being approved. Like a number of things Jimmy tried to impose his will on the CAP. Until he was told that numerous congressional Democrats outside Arizona wanted the CAP. Then he had to change his tune!!!

[@steven4315]

That's the problem with the southwest. Everybody want to stick it to California but you can't get money from Uncle Sugar without California getting their cut.

[@tahm1236]

STATES COME TOGETHER AND BUILD A WATER PIPE LINE, , CONNECT THE RAINY STATES TO THE DRY STATES DROUGHT PROBLEM SOLVED

[@steven4315]

Or you could move to where the water is, problem solved, and I only used the shift key twice.

[@tahm1236]

@@steven4315 TOO MUCH TIME AND MONEY INVESTED IN PROPERTY , FRIENDS, AND FAMILY THATS WHY ITS HARD FOR PEOPLE TO MOVE

[@steven4315]

@@tahm1236 You bought property in the desert and you want the government to bring you water?

[@tahm1236]

@@steven4315 HEY HOME OWNERS PAY PROPERTY TAX

[@steven4315]

@@tahm1236 THE STATES WILL COME TOGETHER TO KEEP YOU FROM STEALING OUR DAMNED WATER. Why do westerners think the east is drowning water? The Mississippi hasn't flooded in years. Bureau of Reclamation say that such a project will take 30 years to build. But that doesn't matter because you will never get it thru congress.

[@duggydugg3937]

the officials spout need for action .. all you can do is desalinization... expensive truck or pipe in water .. expensive condense air vapor... expensive deny limited water to big ag ... good luck and i read theyre building a new city some darn where.. superstition vistas ..wth what the heck.. ppl.. what the heck

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

Yes, it truly looks like insanity and denial of reality reigns in the state government. And the population remains blissfully ignorant of the evolving crisis!

[@davidcross4384]

Leftist environmentalist love this!

[@steven4315]

Yeah, managing your resources in a sustainable manner is a crazy leftist idea.

[@beach_boy1141]

Is that what u choose to care about?

[@frankmorris4790]

Would this have anything to do with all the eastern urban pilgrims buying their little 5 ace ranchettes? Don't worry, they'll foul the desert and move back to their warrens.

[@steven4315]

I think it has more to do with raising alfalfa for Saudi cows.

[@yessicagonzalez5723]

No idiot it’s due to the stupid and incompetent laws and politician’s this state elects. The facts they allow anyone to build in zones with no water or build houses/business with no regulations on water usage is completely in character with this state idiot legislature.

[@frankmorris4790]

@@steven4315 Oh , so you're in agriculture then?

[@steven4315]

@@frankmorris4790 Not since I was a teenager, dad kept a few pigs back when you could raise a few and make some money. Factory farms put an end to that. Worked for a farm services outfit back when they used high school kids for things like detasselling and vaccine crews. These days I live in a little town that hasn't had a store or a post office since Hoover was wrecking the country. Never cared about Arizona until I found out you guys want our water for your Golf courses. Lots of farms around here ain't non of them got irrigation. If you think your gonna take our water for get about it.

[@frankmorris4790]

@@steven4315 Not me Bud, I'm on a ranch in the border country of Newest Mexico, water I gots, ok at 985, but I have it.. Arizona has this problem for exactly the same reason as most of the west, eastern urban pilgrims!. You know, " Oh, we just love it heah, but ya know you don't have sidewalks or traffic lights and it's evah so dusty, but that'll be bettah once we get ouh lown plant ed." They want so badly to turn this country into what they left behind.

[@djcesar7934]

Good luck with that 😅

[@spacecoyote6646]

I don't see anything wrong with industrial Farms. They're more efficient, they're better capitalized. They get food on my table at a lower-cost.

[@TJB-zt9tx]

Yeah who knew boomers would be retiring by the thousands to the SW?🤣

[@jeremywilson2878]

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