One of the fastest-growing areas in the U.S. is feeling the impact of drought in the West | ABC News

[@mrapollo_17]

Wacky idea. Maybe get rid of the golf courses and replace lawns that need water with native vegetation.

[@Odin33356]

The goal is to make drugs legal and plastic bags or straws illegal so we can throw plastic printers away instead of buying new ink cartridges. It should be illegal to grow marijuana indoors and complain about power outages.

[@Jacaerys1]

@@Odin33356this is a Wendy’s sir…

[@WeylandLabs]

Agreed ! We live in a society today where common sense in developmental infrastructure is almost non existent. Its more of a cooperate greed standpoint, this city will dry up and left for poverty stricken house holds. Or the incompetent local governments will try and spend hundreds of millions of state tax payer money to save it. Funny how this red state's political ideology in climate change will soon asking the federal government for help.

[@everythingisfine9988]

Blasphemy!

[@Odin33356]

@@everythingisfine9988 ok purge boy

[@Just-Human]

Imagine a drought in the desert....stupidity.

[@sentientflower7891]

Drought has a meaning within the context of a region's climate.

[@XmalD73]

The audacity of the developers is stunning. Green golf courses in a desert, and a growing population. I see some green lawns in the subdivisions too which is unnatural and such a waste. "They need to work on conservation" yet they keep building! The southwest is a desert - learn to adapt to that, or pay the consequences.

[@kh884488]

Developers don't care about the long term. It's "take the money and run".

[@Magik1369]

It's all a complete delusional waste. Utah and the American West will be completely uninhabitable within 5 years...maybe sooner.

[@Gsoda35]

many of those green areas reuse the water. do not be ignorant.

[@skatetoexplorevideos2477]

14 golf courses, huh?

[@Jacaerys1]

How are golf courses allowed when they are facing a water crisis? Lol, SMH.

[@marcosaguilar548]

Umm wtf are you building in the dessert? Honestly please let the city run out of water. Maybe then people will understand why it’s stupid to develop mega cities in a dessert.

[@KiwiCatherineJemma]

The building permits (for more new houses) are NOT necessarily, the problem, in itself. What they could do, is make it clear that with all new house construction permits, those houses WILL NOT get a "city" water supply. This already happens in many rural areas around the world. New home owners can choose to install rainwater collection tanks... or if you're an alien lizard, just go without water entirely ! Note that in some parts of the USA, local laws forbid people from collecting the rainwater from their own house, garage, or farm-shed roof, to use for their own household purposes. It's up to local people to pressure local politicians to change those dreadful laws, wherever they might exist.

[@dontbanmebrodontbanme5403]

They never explained WHY Utah is using twice as much water as other states. That would have been a good place to start. I know in the South West, farms are using a gigantic share of the water and sadly, at lot of these farms aren't even from the US. Believe it or not, there's a Saudi farm growing alfalfa in the south west. Alfalfa is ILLEGAL to grow in Saudi Arabia, since it's so water intensive. Step #1: figure out why they're using so much water and stop the waste.

[@nickl5658]

It is capitalism. Saudi bought the water rights and according to capitalism ideology.... once you buy something you own it and once you own something you can do whatever you want with it. Having some higher responsibility with what you do with your property is SOCIALISM. So Americans has to ask themselves, are they Capitalist or Socialist? Water rights often has a use it or lose it clause. So what the Saudi are doing is not waste, and completely legal within the US. The US needs to decide and decide quickly what kind of society it is... how does it value things. Especially as increasing stress is being placed on the environment and its natural resources... which hasn't been all that valued in the past. And speaking of illegal in Saudi Arabia.... not too long ago it was illegal for women in Saudi Arabia to drive. And it is still illegal for women to leave their homes without being accompanied by a father, brother, husband or son. Laws that apply in saudi arabia do not apply within the US or anywhere else.

[@QZQZQZQZQZ]

WHY do people keep flocking to desert cities? I myself, am not a fan of constant, unrelenting heat. Also, people who move to these desert cities/towns from places like NYC, and other major cities... Resources are a LOT more precious.

[@WeylandLabs]

Because they don't understand how things work in the real world, living with silver spoons in there mouth there whole life and fee self entitled.

[@sentientflower7891]

​@@WeylandLabs the population of Utah is Republican.

[@pinga858]

@@sentientflower7891 Yup, the same people who are fine with using all that water to make a buck

[@sentientflower7891]

@@pinga858 that's capitalism. Capitalism ends badly for Humankind.

[@jaklinhyde]

Why is every city every county every metro the fastest growing in America?? 🤣🤣🤣

[@terryjones8588]

14 golf courses. Geez!

[@sharon94503]

Civilizations in the past vanished, most likely due to drought and related food shortages. The analogy is: 1 drop in the bucket, 2 drops out. If every year you add more and more people using the finite water, it changes to 1 drop in, 3 drops out, etc. Without natural replenishment, deserts that were once dry are now water filled, and wet regions are now deserts. This is what the natural environment does.

[@FarmerRiddick]

It's way past time to stop development in the southwest. There is no water capacity left. Wagon's East! Plenty of water east of the Mississippi.

[@drjekelmrhyde]

Pray for water

[@maxd3028]

Let's start with the shutting down the golf non sense thank you!

[@Odin33356]

Grow marijuana indoors using hydroponics and complain about power outages

[@QZQZQZQZQZ]

Potheads aren't very smart. Anyone who smokes it, I try to stay away from.

[@Cotac_Rastic]

​@@QZQZQZQZQZ Same with people who drink literal poison and suck down carcinogenic smoke for mild stress relief i imagine?

[@captzoom1778]

A water crisis in the desert really what do you expect you're in a desert

[@sentientflower7891]

Maybe you haven't actually thought this thing through?

[@visteobman4085]

I need water to live... Let's move to the dessert!!!

[@Landis_Grant]

desert not dessert

[@dannmarceau]

Lol, WTF?

[@blinkspacestudio8892]

When you have humans in the situation you will have imbalance. We seem to have this idea that we can just keep taking. If we sacrificed just a little bit of comfort and rethink this "business as ususal" attitude, look after the land for even one year this might all fix itself. But if we keep taking.....we will find out the hard way how that words out.

[@shawnlawrence973]

Shower twice a week instead of every day. you don't have to have a sparkling clean vehicle, quit with the constant car washing, quit irrigating your your yard, quit letting your children play with the water hose like it's a damn game... install water meters on each home that only allow so much gallons per month and then it just shuts off if you exceed.

[@ThomasFromTN]

@@DavidSantistevanVillalobos Then die of thirst. Your choice.

[@Gsoda35]

you could build closed water systems or move away to another place. be realistic.

[@JeffreyWillis800]

News break--the Earth doesn't have limitless resources still.

[@staycalm.]

Most valueable resource in the world and it amazes me somthing that makes up our bodys is not guarded like duhh someone else is gonna steal it and no we do not need to grow this place is already way to huge and overpopulated

[@lokesh303101]

Get it from Tunnels.

[@jrgaskin01]

half of them work at the golf course all day and the other half golfs all day. dum dum dum dum dum.

[@samlyons3552]

WTF ! a golf coarse !.....paint the sand green & stop animal feed ranching

[@Landis_Grant]

course not coarse

[@felinoaaron846]

increase up the property taxes ! 😅

[@krm2000-DRM]

Treatment plant Treatment tank

[@abby54]

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[@alexmiller6930]

Hahaha every chart ends before 2023 because the drought is over. Many places are now drowning in water, and have too much water/floods/mudslides😂 what a joke

[@sentientflower7891]

Maybe you should do a little more research?

[@seamoreplant]

Stop issuing building permits!

[@KiwiCatherineJemma]

The building permits (for more new houses) are NOT necessarily, the problem, in itself. What they could do, is make it clear that with all new house construction permits, those houses WILL NOT get a "city" water supply. This already happens in many rural areas around the world. New home owners can choose to install rainwater collection tanks... or if you're an alien lizard, just go without water entirely ! Note that in some parts of the USA, local laws forbid people from collecting the rainwater from their own house, garage, or farm-shed roof, to use for their own household purposes. It's up to local people to pressure local politicians to change those dreadful laws, wherever they might exist.

[@tm13tube]

Why don’t they dig wells like on the East Coast.

[@JesusChrist777]

PLAY LOUD: No Joke (by Loomz, Rev J, Madison Hughes) #GODGLORYGANG ♥ JOHN 3:16 Literally 🙏 Repent and Pray in My Name GOD JESUS CHRIST 🙏

[@christopherhiggins8238]

Pray to Joseph Smith.. I am certain he will hear you on his planet.

[@QZQZQZQZQZ]

Sure. If he can hear them while being tormented in hellfire, maybe he was a prophet!

[@KingDavid-wn8gl]

Without rain,no water no food,if you dont believe in God,you better start believing now.pray🙏🧎‍♂️ask and you shall receive by Faith alone