Community of Rio Verde Foothills heads toward water cutoff in 6 months

[@boarini2003]

The entire stupidity of developing in a desert, summarized in this video.

[@rosanneshinkle4133]

So true but no one will admit this.

[@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki]

@@rosanneshinkle4133 "just outside Scottsdale"?? THAT Scottsdale?? Usually you see this in areas of Arizona where the land is cheap/cheap and builds are with cash.

[@mattweger437]

Entire stupidity of relying on the government summarized in one video

[@mikehunt368]

@@mattweger437 yikes… hopefully your house never catches fire…

[@JYAN2852]

Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, most of California. It rarely rains here. That should be a hint

[@jayernster7869]

I have lived in the Valley 32 years now, and I was always amazed that the subdivisions and communities could be built without apparent thought about water and resources. What were our ‘leaders’ thinking? Did they get paid off? Did they think that a place like the desert could not run out of water?

[@LK-pc4sq]

Europeans think Americans are stupid and backward thinking mind set!

[@jasminefletcher7493]

They were thinking " MONEY" because they don't care about anything else!

[@SongMom8]

This isn’t about money or lack of foresight. This is due to lack of rain and snow. There have been millions of people living in this area for decades. We didn’t have these problems when there was plenty of moisture falling from the sky.

[@ReflectedMiles]

@@SongMom8 Not really true. My father was an engineer back in the day when the planning and development work was being done, and he said many times as the major Southwestern cities were being built into millions of people, particularly LA and Phoenix, that the talk among the engineers was that it was all on artificial life support and was an invitation to disaster the next time there was a drought cycle or other resources failure, especially one that affected northern California, Utah, or Colorado. He also noticed that a lot of the contractors building these big developments didn't live in the region and were simply making the money and heading back home to more sustainable places. In other words, they weren't personally invested in the long-term outcomes.

[@Razor__1972]

@@SongMom8 1.6 million people in 1960 7.2 million in 2020

[@doskraut]

Should have dealt with the problem 40 years ago rather than building golf courses, pools and having nice green landscapes.

[@thelucidcanoe1549]

Preach

[@danieldaniels7571]

Golf courses all use reclaimed great water

[@doskraut]

@@danieldaniels7571 If you say.

[@danieldaniels7571]

@@doskraut it's pretty common knowledge. Try doing a little research.

[@doskraut]

Sure.

[@cherylcheng7863]

It isn't just the homes. State leaders are handing out building permits and bringing in industries that deplete our natural resources...as an example....both Nestle and White Claw use a lot of water We need leaders that will promote responsible growth that does not deplete our water supplies.

[@ayoitsyayo]

People have the right to build anywhere but most don’t have a clue to think of they SHOULD build there, you know “freedom”

[@thezfunk]

Intel builds FABs in AZ and they use a ton of water. Why not build a Fab where there is water? I see they are going to build in Ohio now but come on.

[@GovernmentalDeception]

Then don’t vote democrat.

[@donaldhampton5854]

It's all about the kickbacks to a politician.

[@aceyorba]

It's all about more property taxes..

[@GmanInd]

I warned some friends of mine who were thinking of selling their home in Michigan and moving to Arizona to retire that they might not have water when they retire. Now it is becoming more of an issue at an increasing rate.

[@alannajones330]

Let me guess they also like having green lawns. I'm not from Arizona but I am from Utah and it is driving me crazy how many people from the east move to out west and try to have the perfect lawn and New England style gardens.

[@muffs55mercury61]

I'm originally from Phoenix and they predicted over 35 years ago that this would happen but the politicians ignored it and have since issued a million permits for houses.

[@GmanInd]

@@alannajones330 Oh yes and lots of trees for privacy on a tiny lot.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

I'm voting for a bus or shuttle. Then you can just move your house.

[@jeffw1246]

I told my kids years ago never buy a house in desert areas. With increasing population water is going to run out. Even now clean water in places that aren't dry is an issue.

[@chessmentor63]

The chickens are coming home too roost, and not just for this handful of homeowners, but for everybody in the desert areas of Nevada, California and Arizona, e.g. Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and more.

[@hiitsrudd8567]

I'm telling ya brah

[@steveeddy6876]

Whaaaaaat no water in the Desert I'm Shocked!

[@xsleep1]

Actually Palm Springs (Coachella Valley) has a significant aquifer (it was once Lake Coachella), especially given the relative low population. Las Vegas has Lake Mead but that is at historic lows.

[@williamwilson6499]

Chickens coming home for the entire world.

[@bargdaffy1535]

@@steveeddy6876 There is also no Water in the Breadbasket of America Fool.

[@christopherstimpson6540]

Amazing how people don't think the laws of nature apply to them while in the desert. It's like, oh, I got my building permit. I'm exempt from mother nature now...

[@evecarrington562]

Yep!

[@wednesdayschild3627]

Superior Colorado was built on an old coal mine. In 2021. The coal fire burned the city down. My family lived here for over 100 years. I told people. They did not listen.

[@KutWrite]

It's what "their" politicians tell them. It's the same here in the SoCal desert. We get lectures on water conservation while the city council OKs any and every development, no matter how dense. They want the tax "revenue."

[@privatename2426]

Completely agree. And then because of natural occurrences like drought and wildfires people say that we only have "ten years" because of global warming. But in reality, maybe we shouldn't build major metropolitan communities in the middle of a dessert and then call any natural phenomena that is not in humanity's favor a "climate crisis." Or waste water that could be used for irrigating crops/drinking water on golf courses.

[@christopherstimpson6540]

@@privatename2426 Los Angeles really has a lot of water. The technology for solar powered desalination plants exists, but no funding is going to it. It seems politicians prefer a crisis to a solution.

[@Montuckymadness406]

“They’ve been warning us since 2016 that this was coming” and yet here you are 6 years later and your only line of action was fill jugs with rain water. Very resourceful… 🤔

[@lfkatzke]

There's been a lot of infighting among the residents. See the DWID commentary in the article.

[@MexicanTeTe]

In Peru they are catching rain from mist/morning dew with nets. It's also a desert region but coastal and mountainous, so I don't know if this would work in the landlocked flat regions of the USA. It's also not a very effective way of collecting water if you're not going to limit your usage significantly. Roofs designed to drain into rainwater collection tanks with huge capacity to make the most of the rare rainfall would be the way I would go, supplemented by the trucks bringing in water. It's kind of sick that homeowners are being cut off from water before agriculture, but it's also incredibly irresponsible to build a home in a location like that when it's been common knowledge that the water supply is dwindling. They're climate change deniers or boomers who thought they'd die before the water ran out probably. In no way does bringing in water via pipelines or canals from further away solve the issue that you shouldn't be living there and consuming so much water in the first place.

[@jermainec2462]

Well you know common sense ain't common... It may be difficult to do so but I would have moved years ago but you know people got a lot of underlying issues while they either won't move or can't move but that's just a headache that I wouldn't want to deal with

[@nofurtherwest3474]

@@lfkatzke Why don't they just move to a place that has ample water?

[@justayoutuber1906]

Trump promised water and to make AZ green again

[@akeleven]

1. Cochise county refuses to regulate water. Just in the last 6 months hundreds of acres have been cleared for nut trees while the water table sinks and homeowner's wells go dry. 2. Navajos in Northeast Arizona have been hauling water for generations.

[@MajTom-wd2yt]

To grow one almond requires 1.1 gallons of water, and to develop a pound takes 1900gal. The crazy thing about that is that walnuts, hazelnuts, pistachios, and cashews all use roughly the same amount of water to grow, but the almond is in such high demand at this time. 'Merica has too many nuts, to begin with, time to boycott the ones we eat.

[@WindyYucca]

I'm in Cochise county also, and the endless pumping needs to stop or there will be nothing leftn the farms the dairy all the orchards they just need to stop. What good is making money when your destroying hole entire ground water systems.

[@practicaloccultist231]

As a person in Cochise country, it infuriates me that they let these foreign companies farm and use up all the water. We need water protection.

[@cd3dnw]

@@practicaloccultist231 not as long as there’s a buck to make, later it will be a means of controlling the populace.

[@sammyp9514]

growing up in Phoenix, I saw so many communities being built outwards and outwards, with no thought to walkability, public transit, quality of life or conservation. the Phoenix we know today, and suburbs, are a result of pure unadulterated greed.

[@muffs55mercury61]

Exactly exactly. By the mid 80s it wasn't home anymore and I left in 1990. My one remaining relative is leaving next year after his kid graduates from high school. Public transit was very poor. From 1970 to 1985 they had no service at night (6:15 was the last bus for all lines) Yes it's all greed why it's what it is now. Developers made billions of $$$ and then disappeared.

[@sammyp9514]

@@muffs55mercury61 funnily enough, I am visiting now. and I am shocked by the development in tempe/ phx. they continue to build new housing even though it will be uninhabitable in 1-2 decades. still barely any public transit

[@muffs55mercury61]

@@sammyp9514 If gas prices ever cool somewhat I plan to visit my brother out there but it will likely be the last time I set foot in town. He'll be out of there by fall '23. After mom passed in 2014 I lost all ambition to go out there anymore. A key to going out there is to be able to survive without encountering road rage.

[@AJ-ox8xy]

Exactly

[@sammyp9514]

@@muffs55mercury61 wow funny you say that! I wasn't so lucky !! had a rental so I just drove like a granny, forgot how fast people drive out there.... like every highway is a race track.

[@dsmreloader7552]

Its amazing how many of these houses have pools in their back yard..

[@seeharvester]

You don't expect them to live like peasants, do you?

[@TM-173]

@@seeharvester soon those pools will be dry and those homes vacant

[@seeharvester]

@@TM-173 Then we can ship the homeless from the big cities out there.

[@pjrt_tv]

@@seeharvester ...to die? Might as well make homelessness a capital crime. Would be cheaper

[@TM-173]

@@seeharvester lol I think there will be A LOT of homeless soon so I guess we'll see how it all unfolds

[@algernoncalydon3430]

Same thing happens in Alaska. People buy property in a place without checking on water, flood risks, permafrost conditions, electricity, etc. Then after the buy their property think the government is supposed to take care of those problems. Except they moved into an area hey knew there wasn't local government, or didn't check what government services were available.

[@samiam619]

Or they thought “I’m tired of the Government telling me what to do”. Opps!

[@algernoncalydon3430]

@@samiam619 Big oops. Guess they should've moved to where I live where there is no county/borough or city government and no matter how hard the state tries they won't get any here for a very long time. Not even the covid idiocy interferred.

[@marcushoward6560]

That sounds like a glorious place to live. Then again, I'm not a parasite that wants the government to "provide" everything to me.

[@erikh9991]

My friend wanted to buy 300 acres in Utah. I asked him what the insurance would be, where would he get the water and can he feasibly build on the land. He didn't realize the property owner pays for the utility line from the pole next to the road to the home.

[@algernoncalydon3430]

@@erikh9991 Happens all the time in this area. I knew to be one pole away from electricity. My neighbor , built his house on the backside of his property, four poles away and it cost $25,000. Here the further one builds from the river the deeper the well. 70 foot well costs $7000.00. Build a mile further from here, the water is 120 further down.

[@lc285]

A county shouldn't be responsible for water in unincorporated land areas. As for a Realtor selling you a story of hauling water, remember, they are not hydrologists, they are sales people.

[@gotwalk]

UNETHICAL sales people for giving advice on a very material matter.

[@sierrachoco5271]

If you have a witness to what the realtor said about always having water I would at least go after their license, if you have grounds for a civil suit all the better!!

[@rjthomasindyusa]

If they collect taxes from the home owners... they should be responsible....

[@STScott-qo4pw]

they and the developers are there for one reason only - it gets them other people's money. once they have it whatever the situation is or isn't is not their problem. the two groups will lie, shyster, swindle any way they can to get yer cash.

[@lc285]

@@rjthomasindyusa - Bologna. Do you live in a New York high rise?

[@chrisbarber3531]

Imagine, moving out in to the desert and finding out there is no water. Now imagine being that same person, but with a brain.

[@darylyost7273]

They have collage deplomas!

[@monkeymanchronicles]

@@darylyost7273 tbh it’s the salt of the earth people who don’t want to give this up; not college grads. People don’t want to admit they’re wrong after all this time and move out

[@Patriot-pq1ku]

😆😆😆

[@clearsailing7993]

Who in their wildest dreams would have ever thought that it might be hard to get water in the middle of a huge hot arid desert, jeez!

[@nobodyspecial4702]

Those homeowners. That's who. Can't say it's surprising that they knew they had a problem for 6 years and didn't do anything about it.

[@darylyost7273]

A college educated idiot!

[@climeaware4814]

@@nobodyspecial4702 the smartest woman or men can make dumb mistakes. my moms cousins adopted daughter was once the chief marketing officers for tmobile. She was living in Posh Redmond Washington. she wanted more land and bought a property sight unseen at the california/oregon border. There was well water at the time, but most likely it was dropping and she did not know it. I knew aquifers were dropping. so I called her mom she said the well went dry. She was freaking out. A famous NASA satellite called Grace can measure aquifer levels from space measuring the gravitational constant between the aquifer height, and the spacing between the two satellite running side by side. California aquifers are in severe danger of running out of water.

[@nobodyspecial4702]

@@climeaware4814 Ignoring a problem they knew about for 6 years isn't a dumb mistake. Now that it's too late to do anything they want to cry about it and hope a solution miracles it's way into their laps, which is exactly what they have been doing for the last 6 years.

[@IIVVBlues]

Building permits should require water availability. That would at least lessen future problems. It sounds like they're still building, with no idea of how to get water. That's the definition of insanity, expecting the same behavior to yield different results.

[@theontologist]

Building where there's no water and then stealing water, or suing taxpayers for water that doesn't rightfully belong to them -- ugh!

[@captainobvious9188]

I disagree, people should be able to build wherever they want, they should just have to deal with the consequences without forcing it after the fact.

[@maximumcaffeine6003]

The only thing insane is thinking moving into a desert is a good idea. How dumb.

[@MRCATWRENCH]

In Arizona the economy is literally pegged to growth, if they stop building the economy dies. It’s a snake eating it’s own tail. It’s like giving rats unlimited food, they multiply exponentially, and we all know what happens when you stop feeding them.

[@paulsawczyc5019]

​@@captainobvious9188 Begging for permission every time you want to do something on your land - is not the land of the free.

[@norml.hugh-mann]

Oh geez Who would have ever thought the desert would get dry???? We have known for 30plus years that the Colorodo basin was unsutainable

[@reubenj.cogburn8546]

There are more carrier pigeons than can ever be hunted. Bison are so many, they simply cannot be thinned too much. Just dump it in the Love canal, it's not THAT bad. Humans are stupid like this, always have been.

[@mshotz1]

I am just taking a wild guess here, but it might have something to do with Real Estate developers running your government. Now, excuse me while I take the nozzle off my hose and twirl it around over my head.

[@seeharvester]

@@mshotz1 I think I'll wash the car and then take a dip in the pool.

[@AmsterdamHeavy]

@@mshotz1 dubble gunz bruddah!

[@williambrandondavis6897]

@@mshotz1 Real Estate developers? The places depicted in this story where are small farm communities not real estate developments.

[@deanwcampbell]

Sounds a lot like people who move into flood zones, then complain when their homes are flooded... A bit of fore thinking is usually beneficial.

[@paxundpeace9970]

Same with wildfire in the urban wildland interface.

[@SunnyWu]

Reminds me of a story I saw on KZbin last year. Apparently this guy moved out of California due to the wildfires during summer. He was getting interviewed in Hawaii where a lava flow destroyed his property. lol Moving away from the state that is constantly on fire to an area right under a volcano.

[@Austin.D]

Or people that move to Tornado ally and complain about their house being destroyed by a tornado

[@SetiSee]

They're all a bunch of lunatics. I mean just look at the people in the video. They probably paid close to nothing for those homes too comparatively and are wondering why it lacks certain amenities

[@CT-vm4gf]

I get what you’re saying, but if everyone lived in only the most ideal locations, there simply wouldn’t be enough room.

[@mencken8]

“They’ve had years to find another source of water.” Yeah, over two centuries. The water situation in the western U.S. has been known since the Spanish settled. And the can has been kicked down the road as millions of people with their various water uses (and misuses) have brought on the inevitable. And now it’s come.

[@MTguy144]

I’m a builder in Montana. I’ve been approached more times then I can count by people asking me to build them a home on a cistern. I have always refused because it’s a horrible idea. I believe strongly in building only where you have a good water source, preferably on a well. Up here in Montana where I’m at there’s a lot of areas that have water 4’-6’ down. The aquifer we are on is the same one that runs into Yellowstone national park and feeds old faithful. I’m blessed where I’m at.

[@motrhead69]

Blessed till that caldera goes BOOM!

[@MTguy144]

@@motrhead69 that is true 😀

[@dead2802]

@@motrhead69 when that caldera goes boom there wont be much sustainable life in this country and it will eventualy shut down most of the planet.

[@dukefortune7998]

Shhhh keep it on the DL or you will have Californians moving there

[@nicolatesla5786]

@@motrhead69 That would be a good thing for earth. It could cause a cool down of earth and that can recharge the world glaciers on all mountains "All glaciers are in retreat world wide"

[@magicalhealerclairvoyant521]

This is from commercial use of water. It was drained from Ca. it will continue. Just love how the woman claims she will just take someone else’s water....

[@gotwalk]

Of course! She believes it's all about her.

[@SegoMan]

@@gotwalk Cali dumped their reservoirs to save the smelt even though they will go when the river runs dry anyway..

[@bingosunnoon9341]

@@SegoMan That's funny but hardly describes what really happened.

[@SegoMan]

@@bingosunnoon9341Your gonna look funny when the rest of the world googles it and find I typed the truth..

[@bingosunnoon9341]

@@SegoMan They restored the river. That's the truth.

[@CruzCruz-nw7fi]

She collects rain water and puts it in plastic in the sun , that’s not a good idea she needs a tank right ❓

[@aegaeon117]

Yeah, rainwater has to be treated for storage or it'll grow algae/bacteria and it'll leach that arsenic through the plastic by leaving it on the ground without some wooden boards on the bottom. You can distill it but, you can't drink distilled water unless you put minerals into it. You can make a fairly cheap filtration system that allows for the recycling of shower water which can save you a lot of water.

[@jeffpurdy2347]

No, the ultraviolet light kills the bacteria in the water. It’s survival 101 on how to purify water.

[@paxundpeace9970]

She has a tank for the truck water but what is she doing with this water. She could flush a her toilet or water the garden at best with it.

[@thomasmaughan4798]

@@aegaeon117 "You can distill it but, you can't drink distilled water unless you put minerals into it." I drink distilled all the time with no minerals. It's just water.

[@vulcano2093]

It takes minerals out of your body.

[@TheEbanks7]

It's so sad that here in the valley, developments and people get to use water like it's going out of style for the most frivolous things while the rest of the state suffers.

[@mgoh1984]

They squandered the resource on greed instead of using it to grow forests that will attract showers.

[@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki]

I looks to me with THIS particular video and area that people are being as responsible with water as you can be: Adobe const., no "frivolous" water use that I can see. If you're referring to VEgas by all means post THERE.

[@rrmackay]

Grew up in the Utah desert, water is a major issue all over the state, in the bigger cities the cost of water keeps rising. Now the walton family is trying to buy up all the water rights across the colorado river basin, I can't image that is going to end well.

[@bluerayfrequency7335]

Sketchy is a good word. Having lived here, in this desert since the 60's. Has never ceased to amaze me of the criminal poor planning of such a fragile environment. And now it is critical.

[@JosephKulik2016]

"Criminal" is correct, and it starts with those White Collar Crooks on Wall Street. If Washington actually controlled Wall Street, instead of the other way around, GREEDY Developers would've never been set free to build huge cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas in the middle of the desert. These developers didn't care a bit about the future of these Overdeveloped Cities, and apparently neither did State and Local Governments who accommodated them. How CRAZY Is It issue building permits with no guaranteed water source ??? And they are allowing even more development now after climatologists are predicting that the American Southwest may become unlivable if Climate Change continues in the current direction. The only mistake that poor homeowners like these made is that they actually thought that they were dealing with honest business people.

[@james-ub6cc]

Poor planning? On the part of the dumbasses living in a DESERT maybe, it’s not the governments issue you or anyone else chose a stupid place to live.

[@darylyost7273]

The Dumb just get Dumber!

[@shmoopiebear]

The homeowners were warned since 2016 that they would be cut off. And they didn't do anything about it kicking the can down the road. They are truly off the grid choosing to live in the desert. Good luck with that. You pay one way or another. If they can afford to live there they can afford to spend money to figure it out. It's very difficult for people to have sympathy for the rich when everybody else is homeless and starving. First world problems.

[@knowone11111]

Well said

[@alexk6126]

I was about to comment that they all look very wealthy. Their clothes and accessories are nice.

[@shmoopiebear]

@@alexk6126 They do not look like they are down and out. And the ability to have somebody deliver to them to store all that water tells me they can afford to pay for their own utopia. Sympathy for the wicked?

[@kevinbossick8374]

Everyone else is not homeless and starving. But the rest I agree with.

[@shmoopiebear]

@@kevinbossick8374 Everyone else who is not homeless and starving probably don't have any empathy, either, or forgot where they came from. Or, maybe they never ever knew how the other half lived. People don't care.... until they have to.

[@lcarus42]

my dream home would NEVER be anywhere where I have to rely on someone else for water

[@bingosunnoon9341]

The farm where I grew up had a pipe sunk down 30 feet to a cave full of water. Never ran dry until they built the freeway. Hasn't been any water in the cave for forty years.

[@nobodynoone2500]

Guess that rules out the west coast.

[@lcarus42]

@Bri Ba The climate will always be changing. It's the easiest fear mongering ploy there is because no matter what we do it will always be changing. Historical data of rocks supports that. What we are doing though is polluting like crazy and that is destroying ecosystems which can and usually does affect water sources. In my opinion we need to drop the climate issue and focus on pollution. Arguably they are tied closely together but climate will never settle.

[@lcarus42]

@@nobodynoone2500 For many reasons

[@lcarus42]

@@bingosunnoon9341 That sucks when that happens, but there is still water in the region I hope.

[@ClissaT]

In Australia, we have the municipal water reticulation system where potable water is piped to each house or lot of land and the usage is measured through a water meter owned by the council. The landholder pays for their water in with their rates. Some smaller, private subdivisions for housing and small acreage lots on the edge of towns developed their own reticulated systems. Eventually, the municipal council takes them over and again that usage is paid for via the council rates notice. The other way for everyone else who has property is to find their own. Most people catch rainwater off their roofs and store it in water tanks ranging usually from 5000gals (22,000lt) up to around 20,000gals. Sizes above that are usually only found on farms and cattle and sheep properties. But for all the people who own acreage blocks on the outskirts of towns and cities, it is rainwater. A few dedicated gardeners will have their own bores or wells and some farms also have them. In desert areas like shown in this video, the householders must catch rainwater off the roof although it won't be very good water so it will only be used for toilets and outside taps ie garden supply. For potable water, they will buy it in and like in this video, it will be delivered by truck. The driver will have supply and resale contracts with nearby councils or maybe he will have his own spring. But the water must pass the usual tests for potable human consumption. We are good at running a household 'on the smell of an oily rag' as the saying goes. All used potable water is recycled for use in the toilet, garden or other outdoor use. All greywater is run out to underground exits in the garden to water fruit trees and the like. Most people who are restricted that severely for water, don't have a swimming pool or large pets like horses and probably don't grow their own vegetables. Some people live where some storms bring rain for a couple of months a year so that is all caught off the roof for the garden. Then they buy their potable water. When every drop of water is so precious, there are ways and means to reuse it more than once. Most farmers in Australia get short of or have run out of water at some point in their farming or grazier lives. Graviers run cattle and sheep. Farmers run dairy cattle, grow crops and run small and mixed farms. One thing to note is that in all domestic subdivisions where the lot will hold a liveable house, there must be a water source available but not necessarily free. So the water delivery truck is considered a water source as are rainwater tanks. Most building codes include rainwater tanks of a minimum volume must be installed when the house is built. Rule of thumb is that two adults should be able to get by on 5000gals of water for 12mths. A family of 4 will need two 5000gal tanks for a year's worth of water. 2 decent storms will usually deliver that amount off the roof of a 4bedroom house with a double carport or garage attached. The addition of a shed, say 7mX12m (24ftX40ft) approx, will keep a 5000gal tank full in average seasons or will fill it once in two storms.

[@nolongerdreaming7443]

Totally agree :) Yes another Australian here who lives on tank water. For these American folk, maybe have a look at Earthship Biotecture - in an area with similar rainfall to the area shown here - about 300mm per annum. They do not require outside water to be brought in as they collect their own in storage on each home - this really is the only way you could survive in these areas. We have been in drought for the last ten years and it can be done. You can also use composting toilets and recycle your grey water for fruit trees etc as Clissa said :)

[@gnarfgnarf4004]

Fascinating! Thank you for a comprehensive and thorough reply. The ancient Mayas collected rainwater in underground cisterns called tzenotes. The surface of the tzenote formed a giant funnel.

[@mtadams2009]

@@nolongerdreaming7443 The big problem with many people is that they want to live exactly like they always did. We have issues with energy but few people are willing to conserve. I am an American and many are very soft. Not all but most. If the power goes off for a few days the world is coming to an end. We have had gas issues and warning over the years but now that prices are high they are starting to get it but not really they just blame the president. It takes a special type of person to deal with the water issue.

[@kennysnyder1331]

@@mtadams2009 km m

[@mrtee3477]

@@nolongerdreaming7443 I take a shower once a month and outside restroom for pooping.

[@rloy7304]

I remember about 17 years ago a professor at ASU told the class to never buy a large investment home in AZ due to a water shortage that will be coming in the future

[@tsonofjohnson489]

so these were the ones who that nah, not me!

[@thedude5940]

4:15 "Where do we go, it's not easy to pack up ducks and chickens and your family and go somewhere else." That's why you've had over four years of warnings. The arrogance of some people "they told us, but we didn't believe them, and like everything else in our lives we thought if we closed our eyes and ignored it that the world would cater to us and change their plans" is what she is really saying, she deserves what she gets IMO

[@chvron203]

Yeah at least she has a freaking house

[@nobodyspecial4702]

@@chvron203 A house in a place where nobody with intelligence will buy.

[@chvron203]

@@nobodyspecial4702 agree. Should have never built there. Arizona won’t even build solar panels so I am worried about the water issues not being addressed

[@haverjr]

@Fire_and_time the problem is they at this point cannot sell their house because they waited way to long as no rational person woulf buy it knowing they have zero access to clean water. They made their bed by ignoring the clearly stated problem since 2016 and now they are going to have to eat the cost of moving somewhere with proper water access.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

@Fire_and_time Might have a bot of trouble selling it at 6.25% interest.

[@paland99]

I moved away from Phoenix in 1984 and even back then, we knew water was going to be a major issue. I'm surprised they made it this far. The sonoran desert was beautiful back then but now it is overrun and great places are fewer and fewer. I'm just glad I explored that great desert long before the people came and destroyed it. Good luck Arizonans. You're going to need it.

[@stephenx2857]

so... you don't count yourself among those people? how convenient

[@Truth-Be-Told-USA]

So all of us here need to move where you are. We will find you and ALL move there. Someday people will actually realize overpopulation is a real issue we can't ALL live next to the Mississippi River

[@Truth-Be-Told-USA]

@Mr. chicano gas and food were way cheaper under Trump. Where were you, hiding in a mental health institution? You should be since you can't see the obvious

[@Truth-Be-Told-USA]

@Mr. chicano Trump effected the whole world in a positive way. You need to go check in to an asylum the MSM has made you insane. I do my own research with people I know and everyone was fine when the USA was a republic, under current communist control we are ALL suffering.

[@jayman2261]

I lived in Prescott Valley in the mid 1970's..... what a truely wonderful time that was...before all the development...Prescott was perfect too back then....Nancy Bennett was on one of the few radio stations back then... KYCA an AM station.......

[@jay-t1030]

Who could have foreseen building homes in a desert was a bad idea…..

[@po4RP20361]

not these morons apparently

[@cuzzdog]

I figured this out back in the 80's and warned everyone who would listen...but never became an advocate down at The Arizona State Capitol...now I live in Oregon with a spring on my property...configuring that water in the mountains is more plentiful...but with Climate Change...not necessarily a given.

[@cub1009]

Living in a desert, water will always be an issue. Especially when drought hits. This is just the beginning. Rural areas will get hit first, then suburbs outside of cities, then the cities themselves. Once the water runs dry where will these people go? I'm guessing they will head north or back to the east where water is more plentiful.

[@byrnc927]

Nope they won't be heading north. Have you seen the rising costs to heat a home? Some politician with dementia promised he would end fossil fuel use. You know that guy who can't even speak in coherent sentences? You know that guy who never talked to his son about his employer or finances? Oh yeah, "FJB 👏👏👏👏👏!"

[@usaisnojoke]

Hopefully they all jump off a cliff.

[@reubenj.cogburn8546]

It's not like that. 80% of the water received from the Colorado river goes to AGRICULTURE- not drinking. Cut-off Ag, and you have all you need for personal use.

[@PTurbo86]

@@reubenj.cogburn8546 Somebody else gets it. People do a little YT watching and then think they understand the hydrology. It really is mass AG and Corporate AG. Farms out here aren't really growing food. Some are, many are growing things for profit like hay and cotton. GO figure...

[@davidgray1515]

@@reubenj.cogburn8546 Well, that would be fine as long as you dont want to eat

[@vladtepes481]

I am happy that my house overlooks a great lake. Lots of water here.

[@jimihendrix1575]

I lived in the California desert (Yucca Valley) in the 80's. Loved the desert! But moved to the Ohio Valley. I have cheap county water, and my own creek running through my property. I got out of the desert while the gettin' was good.

[@davidgray1515]

The people in the west are now gonna come east and use up all our water! Please lie in the bed you made and dont come and waste everyone elses water.

[@Pro1er]

So millions and millions of people move to the hottest, driest part of the whole country and can't understand why they can't get water? It's called a desert for a reason!

[@steveeddy6876]

Whaaaaaat no water in the Desert I'm Shocked!

[@search4truth104]

Reminds me of the Sam Kinnison bit about world hunger. Yea you know what this is? Its sand, you know what its going to be in 100 years? SAND!! You live in a desert!!!!!!

[@chvron203]

House prices were cheap for a long time out here

[@FredDunham]

John Wesley Powell (the colorado river explore) in the late 1890s expressed that development of the southwest was not possible because of the lack of water, seems no one pays attention.

[@dreamlaughwishful]

He’d be going mad if he was alive! I also don’t understand why they think it’s feasible on the long term to redirect the water. Any how Cadillac Desert is a great book that talks a lot about Powell.

[@johnnyrambles]

5000 gallons of water per week? I live full time in an RV and all of my water use (Including showers) is always way less than 50 gallons per week! Get a composting toilet, take shorter showers, reuse grey water for irrigation, etc. Prepare and live different and this would be a non-issue! I didn't see any large rainwater harvest systems in these videos?

[@chrispaul1117]

agree... Its the rich people mind-set. Love those daily long showers.. opps..

[@PG-3462]

@@chrispaul1117 It's not "rich people mindset", but the mindset of almost every American citizen. The average American citizen for example consumes 3 times more water than the average French citizen. Americans consume more electricity, own bigger cars and thus consume more fuel, live in bigger homes built in massive suburbs, etc. We all need to make some efforts to change our lifestyle. If 300 million people make some efforts to reduce their overconsumption of all kind of things, including water, everything would be better.

[@mvpfocus]

@@PG-3462 Perhaps French people could stand to use a bit more water.

[@davidgray1515]

@@PG-3462 Poor people dont play golf or drive expensive cars or live in big homes in a suburb.

[@PG-3462]

@@davidgray1515 Poor people don't, but over 85% of Americans do. And a "poor" person in any developped country is actually not that poor and still overconsume tons of cheap stuff they don't even need that they found at Walmart or on Amazon.

[@HARLEYMLM1966]

I went to google maps and looked at this town. I was shocked to see all the golf courses and swimming pools in it. These people have the audacity to complain about no water. It is a desert, you decided to live in a desert. Living in a desert really has not worked anywhere.

[@ISpitHotFiyaa]

Civilization started in a desert. Ever hear of Mesopotamia? Babylon?

[@gerrygm2532]

@@ISpitHotFiyaa there were rivers in that area. Since growth and diversion there is a lot less, might be a good idea to study a bit

[@ISpitHotFiyaa]

@@gerrygm2532 There's a river near Arizona too. A pretty big one in fact. The problem is we pump its water outside its drainage basin and use it for agriculture so the rest of the country can have fresh vegetables in the winter. Might be a good idea to look at a map sometime.

[@Pulapaws]

@@ISpitHotFiyaa it wasn’t a like that thousands of years ago. In fact North Africa use to be a jungle. Scientists are finding animals, fishes and ancient sea and lakes there even they own written of Roman talks about how the Nile use to glow from East to west also and they just recently find a huge river bed that flow from west to east connecting back to the Nile rive. How scientists is trying to figure out how come there was should a huge climate change that changed a beautiful lust land into a the world biggest desert.

[@adamtrombino106]

Since they mentioned Scottsdale, I'll chime in since I have family there. The city is giving residents that have private wells a no win ultimatum. Either they pay for city water hook up and surrender their wells for about $5-8K ( and get taxed on water usage to boot) or pay $10k per yr to keep their wells. Unreal! Scottsdale wants to tap into the private wells to aid their supply. A huge infrastructure project is already underway.

[@davidmckendry7684]

And it's still the desert and it won't suddenly reverse it's water shortage because t he Valley's residents want more water for their pools,

[@frankblangeard8865]

These privileged people have the money to build out in the desert but not sense enough to realize that there is no water there. How did they get the money to build there?

[@id10t98]

Having money doesnt mean one is smart, necessarily.

[@steveeddy6876]

Whaaaaaat no water in the Desert I'm Shocked!

[@lfkatzke]

It's due to over-development. Scottsdale is building like mad and they now need the water that they sold to these folks. The folks in RVF also overdeveloped their area and even those with wells are overtaxing them. It's human greed and the propensity of man to destroy the atmosphere that one would move there for to begin with.

[@lfkatzke]

@@id10t98 Some of these people extract their livelihood from living where they live. Raising livestock isn't welcome in subdivisions.

[@WiIdbiII]

Most likely got the money like many other crazy old bats. Widowed or divorced their husbands and took half.

[@donaldwilliams2270]

You can thank A/C for this , without air conditioning 80% of the people in AZ couldn't deal with the heat

[@calldwnthesky6495]

i am proud to use a swamp cooler. which uses water 😐

[@pooky0819]

and I'm so sure YOU don't use air conditioning in the summer, right?

[@donaldwilliams2270]

Yes I do , but We have 10,000 lakes and our rivers are flooding right now , no H2O PROBLEMS IN MN

[@DidiGrooves]

Living in Arizona. No, not running an AC, or Swamp Cooler. Just a fan and not always. And yes, it's 120f outside and 95 at night inside during summer. You get used to it.

[@calldwnthesky6495]

@@DidiGrooves i don't know anyone who does that. i know i couldn't "get used to it"

[@jasonbroom7147]

I'm just throwing this out there, but maybe living in a DESERT...is a bad idea? How much electricity do they waste trying to keep their homes cool in the summer? It's not easy to just up and move? People do it all the time, for far less concerning reasons than having no water.

[@harryballsacky]

SAM KENISON....YOU KNOW WHAT GROWS IN THE DESERT, NOTHING, IT'S FUKIN SAND....

[@jasonbroom7147]

@@harryballsacky - "MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!" :D

[@verbalwidget7267]

@@harryballsacky Love Sam Kenison!

[@RichardFStripeRendezvous]

@@harryballsacky Every time I watch one of these news videos on the "drought" out west his voice echoes in my head... "NOTHING GROWS HERE! NOTHING'S GONNA GROW HERE!"

[@lfkatzke]

Probably as much (if not less) electricity than it takes to heat a home in the North. I have news for you..... our utilities costs (electric) are far less than the electric/gas home we had in CA.... by a large margin. To cool /heat/hot water/refrigeration/ etc. our 2700 square foot house, our bills average $180 a month all in. Now compare that to yours. Many of these homes are build differently and the older ones usually perform better than the new garbage if they have the right upgrades (windows/screens/insulation) The only "renewable" energy we have is solar hot water (with electric backup). Made far more sense than "going solar" from a cost/benefit standpoint.

[@dougscott3263]

She hit the nail on the head when she said the desert doesn't supply us enough rain water to live here. but will they heed there own words

[@justayoutuber1906]

But laws don't apply to us....we're white women who voted for Trump....

[@joshuasnore3600]

I’m sorry. This is their fault. It’s like people building their houses on islands and being shocked when they’re destroyed by hurricanes or erosion. Let them figure it out for themselves.

[@Fstreetmotorsports]

It's like stealing water from Paul to pay Peter. Hauled water, what a joke.

[@REXXSEVEN]

Peter Paul Mounds.....and Almond Joy

[@amelia1trekkie]

That's the whole point, isn't it? Every lake in Az is man made. So who builds crap in the middle of a freaking desert when there's no water in sight? We're going to be out of water soon anyway. Why not put a few more golf courses in your neighborhood?There are going to be some beautiful houses unlivable!

[@steveeddy6876]

Hmmmm Sun Worshipers?

[@stevenmorris3181]

Yesterdays swimming pools are tomorrow's cisterns

[@lfkatzke]

Golf courses are normally watered with reclaimed water.... that is spread on the ground, naturally filtered as it inks in, and returns to the aquifer. You can't drink the reclaimed water as it's "grey water" and the treatment plants primarily deal with brown water (aka poo). I don't know if you realize this, but Palm Springs floods fields at night to let the water soak into the ground and refill their aquifers. When you drive through on I-10 look for fields with pipes randomly sticking up. That's where the water is released and allowed to soak in. I'm no expert, but I have read up on it due to all the arm waiving from people that don't get how it works. In addition, humans use very little of the water in the desert. Most of it goes to agriculture. If you think that produce is expensive now, wait until the water gets cut off.

[@bingosunnoon9341]

@@lfkatzke Golf courses use the same water that everyone else uses.

[@lfkatzke]

@@bingosunnoon9341 You are incorrect. I happen to live on a golf course and know the facts (at least in our case). The company I used to work for used gray water for their landscape irrigation as well. This water would be released into storm sewers if it wasn't recycled and used.

[@tomcooley3778]

Traffic is crazy,too many people,no water It used to be real nice here . All we had to worry about was snakes and cows crossing Reo Verde. Drive . Not anymore .

[@theontologist]

Regulation could discourage overdevelopment. But Arizona wants unregulated growth.

[@tomcooley3778]

@@theontologist I hear you Michael . My first winter here was 76 came back in 79 and moved here in 86 . I never thought things would get as bad as it is now . Maybe this water problem will drive enough of them back to where there is water . But that’s just wishful thinking.

[@ezraathome]

@@libturdcrusher1776 good ! Now stay there !

[@wthomas7955]

@@libturdcrusher1776 Good riddance!

[@chvron203]

@@libturdcrusher1776 We're coming for your state now that there's no water. See you soon.

[@roberthunt1540]

We moved from CA. to Vermont twenty years ago. Part of the reason was the inevitable drought. We have cold winters, blackflies and mud season. We also have a spring on our land that runs at around 20 gallons a minute. SMH . . . everybody wants to live where it's hot and dry. Guess they'd rather go thirsty than suffer a little snow.

[@muffs55mercury61]

Vermont is beautiful. If it weren't for the high cost of housing then I might have went up there too (winters don't bother me as I lived thru 10 of them in Ohio)

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

What do you do about the black flies? Heard about them.

[@flyerbob124]

1300 feet……not even close! Up north of Williams, AZ at Valle, AZ there are wells that go town 3000-4000 feet. Most people are living off the grid and go to the “water station” with their water trailer and haul it to their home.

[@griffin2765]

Everyone complaining about gas prices should be more concerned about water shortages. If you look at the U.S. Drought Monitor. You can see almost all of the west coast is in extreme drought. This is far more serious than people realize.

[@southtexas8086]

Yeah plenty of water out here in Texas plus we are concerned abt gas you idiot

[@stewartmckinley7058]

If fuel prices were lower it would be no problem to truck in water.

[@jakemarlow8998]

Great point. I just looked at the Drought Monitor and was surprised to see that basically the entire western half of the US is having drought issues. Crap, that's scary.

[@iworkout6912]

I have seen the climate change through the decades over and over. Lots of water, no water. It happens everywhere on Gods green earth.

[@fredgervinm.p.3315]

America is in bad shape overall. Between fuel, housing, food, inflation... There will always be problems with water in the desert. This community isn't even a speed bump compared to what's coming. I'm retired in Fl, what's happening out west is affecting US all.

[@tomarmstrong1281]

Because of job placement my company moved me from the U.K. to Phoenix. I lived there as a legal resident alien for several years. Coming for a rainy county to the seemingly never ending sunshine of Arizona was a unique experience. More astounding was that in all the years I was there I never recall any serious program to conserve water. As an ordinary individual, with the ability to think for myself I felt concerned for the future. Phoenix has few natural water supplies and the expansion of the population there and in the surrounding areas was explosive. In a world experiencing a looming meteorological crisis because of global warming I was nor sorry to hand my green card back to the authorities and return to the wet and windy British climate.

[@mtadams2009]

I love to visit Arizona and do every couple of years. Mostly Sedona but I think it's a little to much of a good thing. Just like I think England and its damp weather would be to much. My niece married a Brit and lives there now, she is not loving the weather. More than likely its what we are used to that we love. My family love Florida but I am a mountain snow ski person so its a no go for me.

[@paxundpeace9970]

Soon they will have water shutoffs like in South africa.

[@CESmith]

The Atlantic conveyor belt is slowing, if it stops, the UK will be a different place.

[@tomarmstrong1281]

@@CESmith If the global climatological balance shifts to a point where the major ocean currents are affected. We can all take it as a given that wherever you happen to be, humanity, as a whole is stuffed.

[@oscarrlee18]

Glad you are home now worry about Putin and his games for Western Europe

[@kennyvdequetzalcoatl1245]

I live in the pacific coast rainforest. It's been raining for days. How could this happen to me?

[@Falconryful]

What a revaluation! Moved into a desert and no water to drink, I feel no sorrow for anyone out west silly enough to move into a dry arid desert.

[@victorhopper6774]

plenty of drinking water if you quit pooping in it.

[@stevecole2616]

All of arizona is in the same situation. There still building like crazy in tucson. Why?

[@reubenj.cogburn8546]

money and stupid people

[@justayoutuber1906]

Developers donate generously to their GOP congressmen.

[@03focussvt943]

Yet Tucson is nothing but liberal hippies and border jumpers who fled their failing States/countries. You make a whole lotta sense, sweetie.

[@beatrixbrennan1545]

Over population. Mass immigration.

[@swflfishing2902]

Who would ever think you would run out of water in the desert

[@DirtFlyer]

4:10 I am quite sure that the main problem isn't that it would be hard to pack up to move. The problem would be that their house would be worthless with no access to a water supply.

[@franklove]

Desert property should be worthless.. it's the desert..

[@lfkatzke]

Many of these people have livestock. Horses, cattle, chickens, etc.. Not too many communities with 6,000 square foot lots would welcome them. There's a lot of horse ranches there - large operations that care for animals trucked from other areas for the winter. Training, breeding, etc., is part of those operations.

[@DirtFlyer]

@@lfkatzke I am sure it would be no easy task to leave, but still, it is not the main problem. If they stay, they only have to own one house. If they move, they have to own two houses...their new house and the house they can't sell.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

@@DirtFlyer RV/van it is, then. Lol

[@klausmkl]

Thousands of years ago folks knew to build near water. Now we build just right in the middle of the desert. This is progress?

[@Mac11700]

My parents packed up and moved us all to Phoenix in 1963 from Illinois. We lived there for 2 months and hated it so much that we packed up again and moved back. The desert is beautiful,but not a good place to live. My grandma told me all about the dust bowl years and drought when she was alive and that is happening again today. I don't see the mass migration to California this time though.

[@Ed-uz6em]

If you get a building permit in the desert with no water guarantee - it’s called a desert for a reason.

[@nicolatesla5786]

The water originates from mountains. It called SNOW PACK for a reason! you made such a dumb comment.

[@jaridkeen123]

Her house is using 46 Million Gallons of water a year or the Whole Town? Because a Town can most certainly collect that in rainwater, but a house no

[@roadrash76]

Town

[@lfkatzke]

@@roadrash76 There is no "town". It's an area. No local government. Only county cops and a private fire department that you have to "subscribe" to..... (Rural Metro F D)

[@roadrash76]

@@lfkatzke used town because the OP said town. I know it's not a town and you missed the point

[@ellafields9424]

How can rain water be collected if NO rain.?? S W USA is getting less & less rain due to climate change SOOO..

[@paxundpeace9970]

The whole area of Food Hills. Still that is quite a lot of water.

[@nickymatthews2465]

Yesterday there was a post that Arizona just approved a development for another million people.

[@grundged]

How about getting rid of farmers growing alfalfa in the Arizona desert.

[@anthonyhunt7313]

Exactly why I moved from AZ after staying 1 year. There are a bunch of people who live there that thinks their money makes them exempt from nature. And they live in a fantasy that this place is livable.

[@davidgray1515]

And they are called republicans.

[@cd4222]

Cut the water to all those homeowners, but just make sure that all the golf courses In Scottsdale are kept nice and green!!

[@Joy-ne8sj]

I wonder how much water AZ waste’s on golf courses?

[@gotwalk]

Wssted on farming too? Why farm on arid land in the 1st place?

[@lc285]

@@gotwalk - Food.

[@Bradley-Thomsen]

@@gotwalk Where do you think the food in the grocery store comes from?? Farms! Support our local farmers.

[@garcjr]

Most of those used reclaimed water (there used to, there may still be) golf courses in Oro Valley and Scottsdale that still use groundwater. But there's farming in Pinal county, cities and HOAs in Phoenix requiring you to waste water, and mines in Pima County. The farming is a catch 22, development creates the heat island but uses a lot less water than farming. Then again it's not a bad idea to have a food source close to an urban area.

[@danieldaniels7571]

Almost no water is wasted on golf courses. They all use reclaimed grey water.

[@greg_216]

This kind of thing can happen even in places where water is more plentiful. Peninsula, Ohio is an example of a small village where water has to be trucked in despite sitting in a river valley. There are simply not enough residents to pay for a drinking water treatment plant, and well water isn't viable on many properties. It's a problem often encountered when people want to live away from other people: the population isn't enough to pay for basic services.

[@anthonymartinez4307]

They should have home filters and a mini filtering system, this bs of having a water plant is just a scam to charge people.

[@steven4315]

@@anthonymartinez4307 I'm familiar with this type of setup. These homes usually have a cistern hooked up to the gutters with a filter system but require supplemental water during drier times of the year. Banning rain water collection is a western thing.

[@akfroggie2177]

Yeah, but you get to live in a national park. So there's that.

[@climeaware4814]

Greg, tell the city to density the city like Europe. The taxes they collect per acre will be significantly higher to pay for a treatment plant.

[@gardenstatestacker1879]

I live in New Jersey and am a plumber/ Hvac by trade, and I was today years old when I found out that there are homes in the west that get water trucked in.... in my world that’s a crazy concept

[@areliablesource2848]

I was given an "opportunity" to re-locate to Arizona in 1995 and turned it down. I took a look at how they get water and the expected growth rate for the next 30 years and said "no way". Now almost 30 years later it looks like I guessed correctly.

[@Grasshopper.80]

Just wait till the farmers out west have a hard time growing the foods that feed the rest of the country.

[@RichardFStripeRendezvous]

Maybe we should've thought about that before we decided to grow lettuce, almonds, avocados and alfalfa in the middle of a searing desert.

[@jackmorgan1677]

@@RichardFStripeRendezvous Israelis do that already for yonks. No problem at all...

[@chvron203]

@@RichardFStripeRendezvous I heard that part of the reason we get so many vegetables out west is because it snows in the midwest/east for a good part of the year.

[@dm9078]

We’ll survive with almonds, alfalfa and avocados!

[@tmsact]

@@RichardFStripeRendezvous Great news though! Bill Gates has a solution for that. So don’t worry. 😁

[@searlearnold2867]

Building in a desert, knew since 2016 water availability was disappearing, chose to buy a house because water was delivered but NOT on their own well/ municipal infrastructure. Does anyone else not have much sympathy for this level of stupidity?

[@summer-c7i]

Nope. My sympathy is for the land, animals, those who try to conserve water, especially those who are trying but being bled dry by careless, selfish leeches.

[@libertyvilleguy2903]

I can only imagine what this has done to their property values. I’m afraid there are simply too many people moving to the arid Southwest U.S.

[@iworkout6912]

The big attraction of course is endless sun, and warm to hot weather. And people like that over the humid weather you see in the south east.

[@DirtFlyer]

The problem isn't too many people. Water consumption hasn't changed for over 20 years with water conservation measures in most southwest cities. The problem is the snowpack feeding the Colorado River has crashed, and the severe long term drought has reduced rain and increased evaporation significantly. All this has been substantially exacerbated by climate change.

[@timmywitty1432]

@@DirtFlyer the problem is geo engineering aka chemtrails aka solar radiation MANagement. Our weather is MANipulated, it has not been natural for several decades. Start watching the sky, you will see the planes laying down x’s and grid patterns, they are spraying heavy metals such as aluminum, barium, strontium and cesium. I do NOT consent!

[@catwoman2596]

@@DirtFlyer you mean cloud seeding.

[@DirtFlyer]

@@catwoman2596 DId you have a little too much catnip?

[@Geoduck.]

The county won't stop growth they only care about the tax revenue it brings. I do feel bad for the home owners. We recently retired and have looked at Nevada and Arizona but we recognize water is becoming a real issue. When we visited Hover dam it really struck home.

[@BoxStudioExecutive]

When the property values all go to zero because the land is uninhabitable, good luck with that tax revenue

[@m.j.golden4522]

In 2003, in France and most of Western Europe, there was a very long drought. The climate got really warm, posting temperatures we had never seen before. There was no water anymore. This was the year that 50,000 people in a few weeks across Europe died of heat exhaustion. I lived on an isolated farm up in the lower mountains of the VOSGES region of France. We went six weeks without water and this was completely unexpected since rain was a common weather phenomena. It still haunts me to this day and I conserve water whenever I can which is all the time. People think it's weird but I think they're weird. These upper Scottsdale people knew what was going to happen and yet expect all kinds of help and miracles in a dried out desert. They've obviously lost their, both individual and collective, mind. If you want water, you can now spend the summer in China where they have unlimited flooding destroying their rice paddies and crops in general. There is a general illness reflected inl how people ignore nature which is our only provider. Ignore nature at your own peril. We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander. Henry David Thoreau

[@nowhereman7398]

How could a 500 home community be built without access to water? Can you say government planning?

[@DirtFlyer]

Because developers and realtors often have strong influence over local governments, and realty and development are highly lucrative. Money and corruption rule the world.

[@jackmorgan1677]

I'm waiting for you to say that it is all 'Trump's fault'...

[@joshuamoore24_7]

No water but still building homes🤔,it seems like it is time to build a canal and water treatment facility first. I usually do plumbing at that state. I know from camping out and going to Bartlett Lake that the lake has been low since before 2005 and that the Verde river wraps around the north and east side of Desert Mountain. My grandmother Shirley and step grandfather Ben Jones lived in New River. They had their own private well, but had to dig deeper. I am not sure about the quality of the well water. I can't even get paid enough to afford my own home there while I'm doing the plumbing in mansions even. Plus I went to a technical college and graduated it and high school and I do a good job at plumbing.

[@mikemartin9217]

Let it go back to desert 🏜

[@juliepiemonte1281]

Building huge corporations. La

[@rackss1661]

It’s getting real

[@BOOMER-rs5qn]

A number of people I know retired a year or two before me and tried to convince me to move to Prescott Valley. They said it was so wonderful there. I had no desire to deal with the desert conditions, I moved to Eastern Oklahoma (Green Country), sometimes I get tired of the rain here but when I think about all those people without water, I am thankful for all the rain we get. A big plus was, my house cost me about one third of what they paid!

[@j.settle6448]

Like how you think! NO WAY would I ever leave the lush green state of Indiana to live in the desert!!

[@adamtrombino106]

Just have that tornado shelter handy ;)

[@muffs55mercury61]

I'm next to you (western Arkansas) and I too am thankful for the rain. Another thing to think about is property taxes. Mine here are $560 a year. Assessment frozen since I'm now 65. My brother's place in Phoenix (house built in 1949) is $2200.

[@why-xr6lg]

Better move!!! I mean what did they all expect. Everyone’s been saying this FOR YEARS.

[@jaypeterson7642]

why does someone build in a desert and then expect to need a 5000 gallon tank filled every week ? like building in a flood plain and then getting insurance to pay for new furniture every few years and tearing out walls and redoing them at cost to everyone who doesn't live in a stupid place to build other than as farm land. like having food shortages and paying farmers not to farm

[@chrispaul1117]

right. she needs to install a pool also

[@paxundpeace9970]

The water truck might come every week but 5000 gallons are quite a lot but don't know is she only fills it up yo the up when a few hundert gallons are used.

[@Dwightstjohn-fo8ki]

LEGAL water access is fast becoming an issue everywhere in the USA, even in rainy areas like Wash. State, where I build water associations. There are thousands there, while in BC to the north there are a grand total of FOUR. Planning is key. That lovely lady in the Billy Jack hat knows her stuff. But even then, you had to move.............twenty years ago. The OTHER problem is that even if she could get licensed water "Rights" and delivery to Scottsdale, some connected developer and his lawyer would then BUILD EVEN MORE and DEMAND water access for his golf course, and then sue them for "compliance". You can't win.

[@BoxStudioExecutive]

Sounds like the west needs to look to the northeast for ideas on how to run local governments

[@christianjon8064]

I’ll buy one of these houses for 90% off and I’ll make my own water.

[@josebravo311]

We're not talking about drinking your own piss

[@christianjon8064]

@@NatashaPrays there’s a machine called the Tsunami-500 that makes .5-7.8 gallons per hour. Especially attractive since they’ll still probably be on the power grid, it’s just their water that’s getting shut off. Maybe I can plumb a water tank to just run the whole house and install this pumping into the water tank. Probably runs best at night and early morning in the desert. May not work tho if humidity is too low, only works at 50% and above

[@TofinoRider]

We live in a Temperate rainforest in British Columbia and we still have water restrictions every summer. Not only that, the forest fires get worse every year.Why anyone would spend money to live there is beyond my comprehension. Hope they don't think Canada has enough water security to share, because we don't.

[@victorhopper6774]

build a wall

[@kerryjones1257]

At the same time. AZ leases out thousands and thousands of acres for farming. All good right? Nope nearly the leases are leased by Saudi Arabia! They farm our ground, take our water, ship the food over seas.It’s sicking. Which politicians got rich off that deal?!!! Be nice if they did a report on that…

[@artbyzona]

Very troubling. Is the whole Phoenix metro going to have this problem?

[@davidgray1515]

How can you be so ignorant to even ask that question??? Sure Phoenix will be saved because its special. LMAO!

[@Bettinasisrg]

Typical! We cutoff insignificant people yet allow Las Vegas to waste BILLIONS on golf courses, fountains, green lawns?!?!!

[@reubenj.cogburn8546]

Nevada gets 2% of Colorado river water. Arizona gets 17%

[@gerrygm2532]

its not billions. they are limited too

[@paxundpeace9970]

Nevada has actual water reuse plans....

[@Bettinasisrg]

@gerrygm ok I exaggerated and you are correct, I usually do my due diligence but got caught up in the moment, thanks for the face slap ;)

[@richardmcleod1930]

She needs to store water in 5 gallon water bottles. The plastic bottles turn the water toxic after a short time in the plastic bottle.

[@lfkatzke]

Especially when in the sun/heat.

[@gnarfgnarf4004]

It should be OK for washing and flushing. Then you only need to bring in what you drink and cook with.

[@paxundpeace9970]

The plastic isn't even the biggest problem. It is sitting in the sun. Bacteria growth will be crazy. That could kill you even emptying this out. TBH.

[@edielynch7819]

From California...I'm used to economize water. No green grass out front, flushing toilets only when needed (if it's yellow let it mellow.brown flush it down), washing clothes every other week, bath or shower once a week. We've been too wasteful with our water...it's time to buckle up and face the whirlwind!

[@scott16223]

We the locals out here who have been here for 20 years or more drilled wells and used hauled water from Scottsdale as a backup. The area is patchy and drilling a good well is a gamble and very expensive with no guarantees. Everything was fine until a single group , a development company started building homes out here around 2017. Acting in concert with other LLcs to skirt subdivision laws which require a 100 year water certificate. This group, of (Wildcat Builder) builds homes with no water source while also subdividing the land to its smallest lot size which out here is 1 acre. They scrap there lots clear of all vegetation promoting flood control issues,water retention issues. dust issues and creating a heat island out here. This area is the rare high Sonoran desert and there’s only 1 on the planet and there ruining it. They got kicked out of the new river and the cave creek area for the same reason building home's with no water. Now they have build hundreds of homes out here with no water. Maricopa County does nothing to control this and they blame the AZ legislators who refer you to the Attorney General who refers you to the ADRE who says the fine is only $1000 and then refer you to the AZ Dept of Water Resources. The City of Scottsdale had enough as did the City of Phoenix years back and there closing the water hauling pumping station for everybody out here, which they put in a few years ago for us and it wasn’t cheap. Arizonas leaders from the governor on down need to rethink growth as we head from a tier 1 to a tier 2 water shortage. Maricopa County did study's 20 years ago that predicted this problem yet the TRAIN WRECK CONTINUES.

[@justayoutuber1906]

Developers give to big Republican congressmen.

[@chvron203]

I agree with your comment but it's funny you said Arizona's leaders. I didn't think we had any.

[@davidgray1515]

Maricopa county has to be the dumbest place on earth.

[@bobbylikes1621]

Imagine living in a desert and expect to have water

[@danjohnston9037]

Wow, maybe this is why nobody else ever lived there

[@juelzd7172]

Water guy is smart for not giving to much information on his sources

[@garcjr]

It's almost like were heading to some sort of Black Market water. As the old saying goes, "Whiskey is for drinkin' water is for fightin'."

[@MosesOnAcid]

He "gets the water from a pipe" ... dude probably filling up from Fire Hydrants or something and selling water he got for Free... 🤷‍♂️

[@SzymczykProductions]

The fact people living in a DESERT crying about WATER just blows my mind. Wow. Wow. Wow.

[@darylyost7273]

And most of them are collage educated!

[@skidivr]

I just built a house in Maryland. No municipal water so we had to drill a well. $3000. for an 85 foot well. Water was found at 40 feet but the regulations require the pipe to go through the clay layer to prevent contamination.

[@montyagain]

I got two high producing wells in NW Arizona, they are my retirement plan.

[@gnarfgnarf4004]

Sure, until the water table drops.

[@justayoutuber1906]

If they aren't sucked dry by then from the falling water table.

[@03focussvt943]

Please stay outta AZ, rat.

[@alanhelton]

I live completely off grid and use about 100 gallons per month while being dirt poor. You live a life of excess in both regards. I’m sure you will manage.

[@chrispaul1117]

Exactly... Reality check coming up. No tears here

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

100 gal seems low. I'm near a large lake, so I don't have to think about it. But I do have a 55 gal fish tank. I can use that water for any plants (they LOVE fishy poop!) Or to flush the toilet. I like the idea of composting toilets and such, but $1,000 for a glorified plastic bucket just kills me. Lol the mylar one that twists the tube? Yeah, that's horribly wasteful. But if course. Dumping old grey water in the toilet will make it flush. It doesn't require much to start the process. Less than using the tank.

[@Artoconnell]

THis is part of life for desert regions.

[@davidcisneros1429]

I lived in Arizona for thirty years, and the unchecked expansion in the nineties is now showing it's myopia.

[@sheikhboyardee556]

We've been in a 27 year drought that is getting worse by the minute. Ten years ago I was writing letters to the editor of our local newspaper about desalination plants that HAD to built. I had a call from a state senator who is now a U.S. Senator. There was other interest but as of now no one has done anything. My big problem is with Phoenix which continues to grow building thousands of new houses. What part of "you live in the desert" does the city & surrounding area not get? Phoenix in the '50's was a small city with a limited water supply. The Central AZ Project bought a lot of valuable water from the Colorado River. That's not enough, Phoenix has to keep growing. I saw some idiot the other day suggesting that we "change the water rights laws." No, I don't think so. You're not ruining a 4 billion dollar a year agriculture economy in Yuma by stealing their water so Phoenix can build more houses in the desert. You're not stealing water from the aquifer near Prescott. STOP BUILDING, Phoenix is big enough. I would be interested to know who the developers are paying in the cities & counties to keep this going to the determent of the whole state.

[@muffs55mercury61]

I lived there until 1990. People said in 1985 that this would likely happen but no one listened. Since then they've build more than 1 million homes instead. Fast forward to now, they are all blaming the water thing on climate change and not overbuilding. I could bust a gut hearing that!!!

[@sheikhboyardee556]

@@muffs55mercury61 There's not a lot of difference between a drug addict & the builders, city & country officials. They are drunk on power & are ruining the Phoenix area & will do their best to ruin the entire state by stealing water by what ever means they can to support this big monstrosity in the middle of the desert. The Phoenix area is big enough, stop the building.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Don't they force people to pay cash? That tells you everything

[@pshodean]

It looks like it's a community of cat ladies, no men. :)

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Welp, women outlive men, often by 20+ years.