Charging more for water has nothing to do with the shortage!!!!!!!!! When every other house in Phoenix has a pool, golf courses EVERYWHERE, building subdivisions everywhere, which the state is NOT SUPPOSE to allow new building if there is no a 100 year reserve!!!! I don't care if my water bill doubles, I don;t waste water, so let everybody else can just suck it up
Your neighbors in Saint George, UT are building homes at break-neck speed while publicly declaring that they only have 3-10 years of water left. I’m just awestruck and so glad I don’t live in the Southwest anymore.
Yep definitely California 2.0 except without all the perks of Cali like the beaches and the high paying jobs. We just got all the negative aspects of California like the crowds, the traffic and the high cost of housing and high cost of living in general. When will people realize that building cookie cutter suburbs and expanding ever greater into the desert will not end will. The Phoenix metropolitan area has been consistently ranked as being one of the most if not the most unsustainable major city not only in the country but in the entire world, yet we remain as the fastest growing place in the country. Developers and the government are sacrificing our future for economic growth and greed. This will not end will.
I was born and raised here and I can’t afford to even live here now….. I got hired on at a job most of the people there are from Cali and they are mad at me because I got a hired position them they have and I make more money.
Lucky you you sold your home a lot of people won't be able to cuz they'll listen to all the lies even after the taps dry the government will still say we have solutions but they have no water unreal
@@libturdcrusher1776 well my five children in 17 grandchildren are here. I've been here close to 45 years. Moved from San Diego back in late '70s and I definitely consider this my home and like I said all my kids are here. I'm not going anywhere. But I definitely would like them to stop building so many homes.
Time for Phoenix residents to remove their lawns. Was talking to a new resident a few years ago, after she had installed a lawn. She asked why nobody has lawns in this area, north of Phoenix and I cited water shortage. She was dumbfounded, didn't say a word, just looked puzzled.
I'd rather get rid of you than get rid of my lawn lawns. Help cool The valley they take up CO2 they help with pollution. They help with cooling your home. You don't like it. You can leave the valley. And the reason she was looking at you like that is cuz she probably thought you were an idiot.
@@williamdrake3141 I am not stupid enough to live in the cess pool called Phoenix. Where I live, people conserve water. What are the people in Phoenix gonna do when there is not enough water to go around. Lawns are not a natural landscape in the desert, look around.
@@missinformed9550 Phoenix is definitely a cesspool and they should stop building houses for said cesspool. Then there would be plenty of water even during droughts. Agronomy is how you transform a desert into a paradise. It's actually been done around the world through all kinds of deserts. It changes the climate to the better promotes wildlife. Go on UA-cam and type in agronomy. And you'll see about how people have turned deserts into grasslands.
@@williamdrake3141 Phoenix continues to grow at a staggering rate and the reality is that there is not enough water to accommodate the growth. Have you read Cadillac Desert? It is eye opening. Water is a finite resource and should be managed and conserved.
And we pay so much to live here why? Oh cause rich people from other states and country have bought up all our land. They'll lose their investment soon enough.
Phoenix and the rest of the areas making more and more car washes and those private communities houses with mini lakes aswell they are the huge problem
No swimming pools. Use your garden hose to wash up outside over your little sod (there's incidental recharge). Keep your hair short. Wash your clothes by hand. Consider some big augmentation schemes for when the rains return San Carlos, MacKenzie, Roosevelt, etc.. Consider some REAL water quality projects that don't poison the aquifers with effluent. STOP being nice to Ann Landers & Abby when seeking data. When you no longer feel like polishing-off that bottle of bottled water . . . take the remainder out to your landscaping to a plant that looks the thirstiest.
Wow, haven't heard that one. Use your head for more than a hat rack. Golf courses are not the problem. 80 percent is used for growing food and they will be the first to be cut off, human survival is more important, they can grow the food somewhere else. Also there's about 600 gallons of water needed for the burger you ate at lunch, 1000 gallons for each and every steak you eat for dinner....so if you really want to help, don't eat beef.
@@royormonde3682 Thanks for that. People need to think about how their every day actions and habits impact the environment. Animal waste is a massive problem that should be addressed.
But nobody wakes the F U and we wanna keep having backyard pools, nice lawns, and more construction on top of more people moving to AZ everyday. We are in DIRE trouble and law makers NEEED to make strict laws and planning about this ASAP!
In the Los Angeles area they have what they euphemistically call the LA River. It's a huge cement canal/channel made to quickly flow rainwater to the Pacific Ocean during the occasions when they actually receive rain. Why not divert the water to a treatment facility and filter/purify it? I know the water has to be filthy as it picks up all the waste, oil and trash from the street but this same cruddy water is and has been getting dumped into the Pacific Ocean otherwise..... which ain't good!
I'm in AZ and I'd like to know why they have to charge US for this??? What happened to the water that Tucson stores from the 360 mile aquaduct? Extra water from that 30 million dollar project is supposed to be in the aquifers in Tucson. This woman isn't giving any information at all and she sounds like an amateur trying to think of something to say. Why on earth is SHE being interviewed? How are they paying people NOT to use water if my bill is going up? Everyone needs to ask about the aquaduct and aquifers!!
They should face the consequences of their greed. They refuse to only plant indigenous plants, they continue to build their golf courses and people are flocking there from California. But you can bet they'll start begging Washington state for water but continue to abuse. No!!!
People who don't understand this problem often cite the example of just building a pipeline, but your suggestion is even more improbable. In the first place pumping water from the Gulf of Mexico is twice as far as going from the Pacific coast to say Phoenix. San Diego to Phoenix is 355 miles. Corpus Christi to Phoenix is 1125 miles. Look at a map once in a while. Plus you haven't thought about the expense to pump that water distance even just from San Diego. Then then there is the issue of negotiating the right a way which can be a legal mess. People also don't realize that even a ten foot wide pipe would be a drop in the bucket for the water needs in the southwest. And all this doesn't begin to address the reality that desalination is expensive to build and run and at best only provide supplemental water supplies. And just because it is done in the Middle East is no answer because those countries have their economy structured completely different then in the US with different priorities. Both Israel and Saudi Arabia also receive about 3 BILLION $$ in aid from the US. If the US would cut a 100 billion out of the bloated military budget all kinds of things become possible. This is without even getting into the
Why would we build a pipeline from Corpus Christi or San Diego when Rocky Point is closer than both of those to Phoenix? Talk about looking at a map once in a while.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 Well what would you sensibly suggest to help resolve this problem? Sadly it's too late unless serious decisions, not popular, will have to be faced !
@@martinforrester8249 I mean this to be a downer, but this is how I see it. Many climate scientists and others have asserted the droughts, heat waves and forest fires will only intensify in southwest leading to less rainfall when and where needed. Strict water rationing will delay the coming further decline in reservoirs through out the west, but we could see drought and heat waves so extreme that a mass migration could be the result. This is why we have to aggressively confront the threat posed by global warming as though we were going to war. In a sense we are. All the extreme weather that we are already seeing will only become more frequent and more intense. So adaptation will become necessary to some degree, but we can only adapt to a point and then the extreme heat and drought could overwhelm us. Hopefully though our current efforts will accelerate and we can slow this train from becoming a catastrophe.
Paying people to use less water that really sounds like mismanagement to me. So who is getting paid to use less water? I've cut back on my water I don't see me getting paid 🤔.
The Colorado river has a diversion at its head waters that actually siphon water away from the southern states that rely on the river. Why isn’t congress being pushed to cut back on this diverted water as it’s being reported that only about a 1/3 is needed for its purpose?
That gets in the complex mess of water rights that were negotiated decades ago. There has been some easing up on in that area by some ranchers and farmers who have voluntarily cut their take but they are in the minority.
a good first step would be to price water at the cost to deliver that water. The costs of building and maintaining canals, pipelines, reservoirs, etc. should be factored in and users should be charged enough to cover them. Homes that use in excess of a pre determined amount and large industrial and agricultural users should bear a proportionate share of the cost to deliver that much water. There is no limit on how much water can be pumped out of the deep water aquifers. There should be limits. Green lawns and golf courses and pivot or flood irrigation of water intensive crops should be banned. Every building should be required to install rainwater harvesting systems to recharge shallow groundwater tables. It will take an all hands and all methods effort to ease the water shortage. It will not be quick, nor easy, nor cheap but if they want to live and farm in the desert, it has to happen.
''''''''' There is no limit on how much water can be pumped out of the deep water aquifers. '''' of course there is there is a finite amount of water in an aquifer after many years you would run out of water in an aquifer
@@robinsss I was referring to the fact that groundwater wells are unregulated and the property owner can pump an unlimited amount. It goes without saying that no more can be pumped once the aquifer is depleted.
''''''a good first step would be to price water at the cost to deliver that water. The costs of building and maintaining canals, pipelines, reservoirs, etc. should be factored in and users should be charged enough to cover them. '''' what makes you think that those things are not already factored into the cost to consumers?
@@robinsss Research. Look into it and you will find that some of the biggest users pay the lowest rates and virtually no pays the true cost of water system expenses.
These AZ investments (homes) will nose dive in coming years. Investors will suffer. Homeowners will suffer. Glad I didn't choose Phoenix to purchase my home....!
Drougth: CA and rest off the South West got 2 choice, fix the problem or keep the water problem! CA got 85,9 m acre foot, Coloumbia river dumps 191,3 m foot into The Pasific every year. Move 10% off this water. Make a 365m long tunnel from Red Bluff. NV, AZ, Mexico can then keep Colorado water.
The head water guy in Phoenix said don't worry Phoenix will never run out of water Sunnyvale in San Jose and Northern California they're saying dry taps by the end of the summer but it's hush hush don't tell nobody
Sounds like the old Norm of city/government officials doing nothing, charging more for their own pockets. How does less water in a lake cost more to deliver?
Also, look at it this way. Let's say it costs $1000 to deliver 1 million gallons of water, that $0.001 per gallon to deliver. Now it still costs $1000 but you only deliver 100,000 gallons of water, that's $0.01 per gallon to deliver.
This of all the water wasted to grow things like expensive horse feed and nuts. If people used their brains we could really cut back. Horses and cows can eat weeds or corn feed in a drought.
We pipes for fuel and tankers and all kinds of things for gas but we don’t have anything to bring water here. Next we will have to pay for the dirty air you are privileged breath
Everyone worried about this. It will be fine. This will not last just like everything else in this Babylon Amer-egypt we live in. Those societies got theirs. We WILL get ours. 😁 and trust Yahuah not Man.
Through out history there have been civilizations that have collapsed because they did not work with nature. The US has essentially expanded like a cancer since it was first settled and because our over use of the environment we are running into increasing water issues. Global warming is exacerbating our problems with ever more extreme weather as in floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, drought and so on. At this rate parts of this country will become uninhabitable.
No body ever said that we would all be under water by now and that was never forecast anyway for inland regions like Arizona. Besides that we have more immediate threats from global warming causing ever more extreme weather as in stronger hurricanes, tornadoes ( that we just saw in the Midwest), flooding and drought.
Be blunt and please don't sugar coat your comments. Bottom line: will LV's water run out? I don't see using less water. Booming construction isn't slowing down
They should build a pipe line from the ocean sea of costez and pump sea water and desaultation like they do on boats its not that far from tucson to rock piont is only a couple a hundred miles ..
people of the world wanna see how sad and desperate they are? those bums who live on a reservations with government money thought they could "make it rain" HAHAHAHA i mean how delusional do you have to be to think such a thing let alone act on it . . . if you in the area please stop by and laugh at them
I think what we need to do is pray that God would bless us with wet snowfall all over the mountains to feet into the Colorado river. I know that they may not be popular with some, but I still believe God does miracles.
Dude how dumb are people... Arizona is a desert wtf you mean drought? It's not a luscious green area it's been a desert from the start... it's not in a drought it's been like that for years and years and years...
See my friend you have common sense. A lot of people don’t think for themselves now a days. Arizona also has a underground water reservoir that has enough to give the whole country water for a couple thousand years
Drought is a term used to describe less than the typical rainfall totals. Phoenix gets more rain than Las Vegas, both are deserts, but if in any given year Phoenix didn’t receive that rain, it would be considered a drought.
Calif needs to contribute to a set of forty foot diameter Pipes that carry water to the TOP of the Colorado river from maybe the Missouri River or even the Mississippi River. If we can pump water OVER the Tehachapi Mountains at Bakersfield, we can pump water to the Colorado !! And a GREAT employment opportunity !
what about this... If sea levels are rising, kill two birds with one stone, build a long pipeline from the California coast to Phoenix. Suck up sea water, desalinate it, then pipe it to Phoenix. it'd provide Phoenix with more water, and help to reduce sea level rise. I don't know, it's an idea.
It's so easy to Dee's organization of seawater Mexico owes us so much money there's a good way to pay some of it back it's only a couple 100 miles we've done bigger and batter things this has been my idea for the last 20 years but nobody listens
You concerned..about .you're water. Take a ride along side the arizona Colorado. Canals long journey threw. Metro Phoenix all along the Canals are big pumps i worked for a county department .sent out too build a cover for this departments big pump .short story here I had the water pumps made showed where this department was pumping a 2foot head pump and where it went .short it. Was. Going too a big golf course pond .reservoir teed off then went too a water slid park .big massive meter was at a relay station a mile back towards the .tee there were relay pumps I had no idea this is standard. All threw the the arizona central Canals on run threw arizona you wanted too save water you arz. Government. Is selling your water for private. Company's is there. Any overnight on any of this don't tell me you are going too. Be out of what you put on golf courses public profit slide and monster pools if u want too know take your .investigations too the pumps and who is controlling. Them these pumps cost a lot of public taxes. Too run and replace every few month. Follow the. Money its really your water there taking
Charging more for water has nothing to do with the shortage!!!!!!!!! When every other house in Phoenix has a pool, golf courses EVERYWHERE, building subdivisions everywhere, which the state is NOT SUPPOSE to allow new building if there is no a 100 year reserve!!!! I don't care if my water bill doubles, I don;t waste water, so let everybody else can just suck it up
Your neighbors in Saint George, UT are building homes at break-neck speed while publicly declaring that they only have 3-10 years of water left. I’m just awestruck and so glad I don’t live in the Southwest anymore.
Keep building and keep those people moving to the valley by the hundreds every month 🤪
Yep definitely California 2.0 except without all the perks of Cali like the beaches and the high paying jobs. We just got all the negative aspects of California like the crowds, the traffic and the high cost of housing and high cost of living in general. When will people realize that building cookie cutter suburbs and expanding ever greater into the desert will not end will. The Phoenix metropolitan area has been consistently ranked as being one of the most if not the most unsustainable major city not only in the country but in the entire world, yet we remain as the fastest growing place in the country. Developers and the government are sacrificing our future for economic growth and greed. This will not end will.
I was born and raised here and I can’t afford to even live here now….. I got hired on at a job most of the people there are from Cali and they are mad at me because I got a hired position them they have and I make more money.
That's why I sold my home .HOW CAN YOU LIVE SOMEWHERE WITH NO WATER,AND TOOOO MANY PEOPLE.
You are so right. It's stating the obvious but no one is listening.
Lucky you you sold your home a lot of people won't be able to cuz they'll listen to all the lies even after the taps dry the government will still say we have solutions but they have no water unreal
Well then stop building new housing for crying out loud!! We can't afford any more people in the valley. We're full up!
@@libturdcrusher1776 well my five children in 17 grandchildren are here. I've been here close to 45 years. Moved from San Diego back in late '70s and I definitely consider this my home and like I said all my kids are here. I'm not going anywhere. But I definitely would like them to stop building so many homes.
They are building millions of homes as we speak that reply on this lake then they say they are trying to conserve move away there is no water .
To bad Arizona. Prepare for the worst. This is not getting better. Limited supply, more people moving in.
Time for Phoenix residents to remove their lawns. Was talking to a new resident a few years ago, after she had installed a lawn. She asked why nobody has lawns in this area, north of Phoenix and I cited water shortage. She was dumbfounded, didn't say a word, just looked puzzled.
I'd rather get rid of you than get rid of my lawn lawns. Help cool The valley they take up CO2 they help with pollution. They help with cooling your home. You don't like it. You can leave the valley. And the reason she was looking at you like that is cuz she probably thought you were an idiot.
@@williamdrake3141 I am not stupid enough to live in the cess pool called Phoenix. Where I live, people conserve water. What are the people in Phoenix gonna do when there is not enough water to go around. Lawns are not a natural landscape in the desert, look around.
@@missinformed9550 Phoenix is definitely a cesspool and they should stop building houses for said cesspool. Then there would be plenty of water even during droughts. Agronomy is how you transform a desert into a paradise. It's actually been done around the world through all kinds of deserts. It changes the climate to the better promotes wildlife. Go on UA-cam and type in agronomy. And you'll see about how people have turned deserts into grasslands.
@@williamdrake3141 Phoenix continues to grow at a staggering rate and the reality is that there is not enough water to accommodate the growth. Have you read Cadillac Desert? It is eye opening. Water is a finite resource and should be managed and conserved.
@@missinformed9550 water is the most abundant resource on the planet and it is totally recyclable
This has been a problem a since the 60's, they should have been doing something for a long time
What good does it do to complain about what should have been done?
If they are now talking about it, it is probably a lot worse than we think.
So many businesses and companies are moving here. That can't be good for conservation.
Stop flooding lawns. Get rid of plants not native to the region. Install gray water tanks for watering plants.
I heard that a golf course uses grey water in a video once. Most people therr don’t have lawns and use gravel.
Well stop building all these friggin 6 story apartment complexes in Gilbert. This place is imploding.
Basically, its down to pure greed !
And we pay so much to live here why? Oh cause rich people from other states and country have bought up all our land. They'll lose their investment soon enough.
Phoenix and the rest of the areas making more and more car washes and those private communities houses with mini lakes aswell they are the huge problem
You make a good point. The desert Southwest has the most elaborate car-washes that I’ve ever seen in my life.
poop in fresh drinking water then flushing it. totaly makes sense right. clueless like this happend overnight.
You live in the desert and you're having water problems. Hmm..what ever could the problem be.
Or the solution...
These garbage comments. That’s the reality okay. What are you going to do, kick everyone out? Stop letting people in? Won’t work.
@42luke But there is no water. The solution is: don't live there.
Stop building large stadiums and government buildings, casinos.
Want to be able to drink and bathe or want a pool and a golf course?
I love reporters enthusiastic jokes. Just smiling about death being near "TODAY WE HAVE NO WATER AHHA! CHERRIO CHAPS".
Keep our borders open. That should help.
Well! The bigger the population grows! The more water gets used! And the lack of rain doesn’t help at all!
Arizona. I will miss you ;,(
No swimming pools. Use your garden hose to wash up outside over your little sod (there's incidental recharge). Keep your hair short. Wash your clothes by hand. Consider some big augmentation schemes for when the rains return San Carlos, MacKenzie, Roosevelt, etc.. Consider some REAL water quality projects that don't poison the aquifers with effluent. STOP being nice to Ann Landers & Abby when seeking data. When you no longer feel like polishing-off that bottle of bottled water . . . take the remainder out to your landscaping to a plant that looks the thirstiest.
How ridiculous. Most of my neighbors have grass yards. Pass a few reasonable laws for Pete's sake.
Close or reduced golf courses ⛳ the waste to much water
Wow, haven't heard that one. Use your head for more than a hat rack. Golf courses are not the problem. 80 percent is used for growing food and they will be the first to be cut off, human survival is more important, they can grow the food somewhere else. Also there's about 600 gallons of water needed for the burger you ate at lunch, 1000 gallons for each and every steak you eat for dinner....so if you really want to help, don't eat beef.
@@royormonde3682 Thanks for that. People need to think about how their every day actions and habits impact the environment. Animal waste is a massive problem that should be addressed.
Some golf courses use reclaimed water to water the courses. Do some homework.
@@suzettewoods5512 reclaim water that could be use for something else, 🤔, growing food perhaps
But nobody wakes the F U and we wanna keep having backyard pools, nice lawns, and more construction on top of more people moving to AZ everyday. We are in DIRE trouble and law makers NEEED to make strict laws and planning about this ASAP!
In the Los Angeles area they have what they euphemistically call the LA River. It's a huge cement canal/channel made to quickly flow rainwater to the Pacific Ocean during the occasions when they actually receive rain. Why not divert the water to a treatment facility and filter/purify it? I know the water has to be filthy as it picks up all the waste, oil and trash from the street but this same cruddy water is and has been getting dumped into the Pacific Ocean otherwise..... which ain't good!
you would get much more water from desal than rain during a drought
I'm in AZ and I'd like to know why they have to charge US for this??? What happened to the water that Tucson stores from the 360 mile aquaduct? Extra water from that 30 million dollar project is supposed to be in the aquifers in Tucson. This woman isn't giving any information at all and she sounds like an amateur trying to think of something to say. Why on earth is SHE being interviewed? How are they paying people NOT to use water if my bill is going up? Everyone needs to ask about the aquaduct and aquifers!!
They should face the consequences of their greed. They refuse to only plant indigenous plants, they continue to build their golf courses and people are flocking there from California. But you can bet they'll start begging Washington state for water but continue to abuse. No!!!
You should run a pipeline from the gulf of mexico, probably cheaper than running it from California, then desalinate it.
I’ve said that all along
People who don't understand this problem often cite the example of just building a pipeline, but your suggestion is even more improbable. In the first place pumping water from the Gulf of Mexico is twice as far as going from the Pacific coast to say Phoenix. San Diego to Phoenix is 355 miles. Corpus Christi to Phoenix is 1125 miles. Look at a map once in a while.
Plus you haven't thought about the expense to pump that water distance even just from San Diego.
Then then there is the issue of negotiating the right a way which can be a legal mess.
People also don't realize that even a ten foot wide pipe would be a drop in the bucket for the water needs in the southwest.
And all this doesn't begin to address the reality that desalination is expensive to build and run and at best only provide supplemental water supplies.
And just because it is done in the Middle East is no answer because those countries have their economy structured completely different then in the US with different priorities. Both Israel and Saudi Arabia also receive about 3 BILLION $$ in aid from the US.
If the US would cut a 100 billion out of the bloated military budget all kinds of things become possible.
This is without even getting into the
Why would we build a pipeline from Corpus Christi or San Diego when Rocky Point is closer than both of those to Phoenix? Talk about looking at a map once in a while.
@@michaeldeierhoi4096 Well what would you sensibly suggest to help resolve this problem? Sadly it's too late unless serious decisions, not popular, will have to be faced !
@@martinforrester8249 I mean this to be a downer, but this is how I see it. Many climate scientists and others have asserted the droughts, heat waves and forest fires will only intensify in southwest leading to less rainfall when and where needed.
Strict water rationing will delay the coming further decline in reservoirs through out the west, but we could see drought and heat waves so extreme that a mass migration could be the result.
This is why we have to aggressively confront the threat posed by global warming as though we were going to war. In a sense we are. All the extreme weather that we are already seeing will only become more frequent and more intense.
So adaptation will become necessary to some degree, but we can only adapt to a point and then the extreme heat and drought could overwhelm us. Hopefully though our current efforts will accelerate and we can slow this train from becoming a catastrophe.
There's more human civilization than the desert can sustain.
Get your water harvest systems installed now.
If you need water like yesterday, it's already too late.
Always wait for the last minute, then worry.
Paying people to use less water that really sounds like mismanagement to me. So who is getting paid to use less water? I've cut back on my water I don't see me getting paid 🤔.
Just build a nuclear power plant and desalination plant at the Gulf of California. Plenty of cheap clean water for everyone.
If you have enough water for house lawns and outdoor swimming pools in a desert, then you don't have a drought. You have misplaced priorities.
Why are they building water parks then?
Water park reuse the same Water over and over again like a normal pool, golf courses are the most wasteful Water facilities
@@carlosvilla4658 no agriculture is. Every other use combined is half the amount of the total amount of agriculture uses.
We had a trillion dollar infrastructure bill. I’m sure water was top priority.
I hope they don't blame it on people with lawns, it's businesses that consume and use most of the water
Oh gosh, nobody wants to make YOU unhappy, with ugly rocks.
@@ralbert7885
I like rocks 🪨
Lawns got to be maintained.
The Colorado river has a diversion at its head waters that actually siphon water away from the southern states that rely on the river. Why isn’t congress being pushed to cut back on this diverted water as it’s being reported that only about a 1/3 is needed for its purpose?
That gets in the complex mess of water rights that were negotiated decades ago. There has been some easing up on in that area by some ranchers and farmers who have voluntarily cut their take but they are in the minority.
Need to stop farming in the west, and limit people moving there.
Good Luck 🍀
a good first step would be to price water at the cost to deliver that water. The costs of building and maintaining canals, pipelines, reservoirs, etc. should be factored in and users should be charged enough to cover them. Homes that use in excess of a pre determined amount and large industrial and agricultural users should bear a proportionate share of the cost to deliver that much water. There is no limit on how much water can be pumped out of the deep water aquifers. There should be limits. Green lawns and golf courses and pivot or flood irrigation of water intensive crops should be banned. Every building should be required to install rainwater harvesting systems to recharge shallow groundwater tables. It will take an all hands and all methods effort to ease the water shortage. It will not be quick, nor easy, nor cheap but if they want to live and farm in the desert, it has to happen.
''''''''' There is no limit on how much water can be pumped out of the deep water aquifers. ''''
of course there is
there is a finite amount of water in an aquifer
after many years you would run out of water in an aquifer
@@robinsss I was referring to the fact that groundwater wells are unregulated and the property owner can pump an unlimited amount. It goes without saying that no more can be pumped once the aquifer is depleted.
''''''a good first step would be to price water at the cost to deliver that water. The costs of building and maintaining canals, pipelines, reservoirs, etc. should be factored in and users should be charged enough to cover them. ''''
what makes you think that those things are not already factored into the cost to consumers?
@@robinsss Research. Look into it and you will find that some of the biggest users pay the lowest rates and virtually no pays the true cost of water system expenses.
These AZ investments (homes) will nose dive in coming years. Investors will suffer. Homeowners will suffer. Glad I didn't choose Phoenix to purchase my home....!
Drougth: CA and rest off the South West got 2 choice, fix the problem or keep the water problem!
CA got 85,9 m acre foot, Coloumbia river dumps 191,3 m foot into The Pasific every year. Move 10% off this water. Make a 365m long tunnel from Red Bluff. NV, AZ, Mexico can then keep Colorado water.
It's all the new houses and new warehouses you're building in the desert. Let's text the people not like rent isn't high enough.
The head water guy in Phoenix said don't worry Phoenix will never run out of water Sunnyvale in San Jose and Northern California they're saying dry taps by the end of the summer but it's hush hush don't tell nobody
You can't keep building in major cities building golf courses and stuff less people less water usage
Sounds like the old Norm of city/government officials doing nothing, charging more for their own pockets. How does less water in a lake cost more to deliver?
Supply and demand. Less supply, more demand, higher prices.
Also, look at it this way. Let's say it costs $1000 to deliver 1 million gallons of water, that $0.001 per gallon to deliver. Now it still costs $1000 but you only deliver 100,000 gallons of water, that's $0.01 per gallon to deliver.
This of all the water wasted to grow things like expensive horse feed and nuts. If people used their brains we could really cut back. Horses and cows can eat weeds or corn feed in a drought.
I want to live in the desert and have all the cheap water I want!
We pipes for fuel and tankers and all kinds of things for gas but we don’t have anything to bring water here. Next we will have to pay for the dirty air you are privileged breath
That's why I installed fake grass in my yard.
Everyone worried about this. It will be fine. This will not last just like everything else in this Babylon Amer-egypt we live in. Those societies got theirs. We WILL get ours. 😁 and trust Yahuah not Man.
Through out history there have been civilizations that have collapsed because they did not work with nature.
The US has essentially expanded like a cancer since it was first settled and because our over use of the environment we are running into increasing water issues.
Global warming is exacerbating our problems with ever more extreme weather as in floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, drought and so on. At this rate parts of this country will become uninhabitable.
Wasn't global warming supposed to take care of this? Weren't we all supposed to be under water by now with the thawing ice caps?
No body ever said that we would all be under water by now and that was never forecast anyway for inland regions like Arizona.
Besides that we have more immediate threats from global warming causing ever more extreme weather as in stronger hurricanes, tornadoes ( that we just saw in the Midwest), flooding and drought.
We’re building pools like crazy out here on the far west valley,
And all the pua and stimulus that duecy kept can help with the drought.
Watch the Dobrinich reports on YT...
He's got all the droughts and damns covered.
YT... young turks?
Don’t build cities of millions in the desert 😂
But don’t come to Florida either, we’re running out of room.
Hauling fresh water across two states would come with an exorbitant price tag let alone having to desalinate it first.
Be blunt and please don't sugar coat your comments. Bottom line: will LV's water run out? I don't see using less water. Booming construction isn't slowing down
Pipeline from Alaska is the answer! And behavioral changes too
They should build a pipe line from the ocean sea of costez and pump sea water and desaultation like they do on boats its not that far from tucson to rock piont is only a couple a hundred miles ..
Isnt water flow determined by the amount of electricity produced?Lower lakes are flourishing ,
Other way around
people of the world wanna see how sad and desperate they are? those bums who live on a reservations with government money thought they could "make it rain" HAHAHAHA i mean how delusional do you have to be to think such a thing let alone act on it . . . if you in the area please stop by and laugh at them
I think what we need to do is pray that God would bless us with wet snowfall all over the mountains to feet into the Colorado river. I know that they may not be popular with some, but I still believe God does miracles.
If we waited around for god to solve our problems we'd have gone extinct a long long time ago.
@@DiogenesNephew you are so right.
Too little too late
Dude how dumb are people... Arizona is a desert wtf you mean drought? It's not a luscious green area it's been a desert from the start... it's not in a drought it's been like that for years and years and years...
See my friend you have common sense. A lot of people don’t think for themselves now a days. Arizona also has a underground water reservoir that has enough to give the whole country water for a couple thousand years
Drought is a term used to describe less than the typical rainfall totals. Phoenix gets more rain than Las Vegas, both are deserts, but if in any given year Phoenix didn’t receive that rain, it would be considered a drought.
It's a was to tax dumb people more
And Facebook is building a facility in Mesa that's going to be water cooled
Calif needs to contribute to a set of forty foot diameter Pipes that carry water to the TOP of the Colorado river from maybe the Missouri River or even the Mississippi River. If we can pump water OVER the Tehachapi Mountains at Bakersfield, we can pump water to the Colorado !! And a GREAT employment opportunity !
what about this...
If sea levels are rising, kill two birds with one stone, build a long pipeline from the California coast to Phoenix. Suck up sea water, desalinate it, then pipe it to Phoenix.
it'd provide Phoenix with more water, and help to reduce sea level rise.
I don't know, it's an idea.
@@PS_on_youtube Even if they're Not rising !
It's so easy to Dee's organization of seawater Mexico owes us so much money there's a good way to pay some of it back it's only a couple 100 miles we've done bigger and batter things this has been my idea for the last 20 years but nobody listens
Biden will cancel any pipeline.
Figured a clown would claim it’s Bidens fault.
@@kbram7363 well clown, what's your excuse besides voting for him?
@@terryschnereger8531 see a shrink, orange loving clown
Get off the pipe, loafer
@@TommyAloha. why should I layoff the pipeline, does it offend you? Is it racist to you?
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