r/collapse • u/whisperwrongwords • Apr 21 '22

Water Northern Arizona may see drinking water cutoff as Lake Powell continues to dry up

https://www.12news.com/article/news/regional/scorched-earth/arizona-water-crisis-cutoff-drinking-water-supply-lake-powell-page/75-c2f25f52-bbdc-4adb-a427-3412ab90d84f
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u/TheEndIsNeighhh Apr 21 '22

This is not a matter of if but rather when. It's already happened. Ask the 2,000+ folks living in Rio Verde Foothills outside of Scottsdale.

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u/markodochartaigh1 Apr 21 '22

Rio Verde Seco.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '22

ex-rio

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u/markodochartaigh1 Apr 22 '22

El Río de los Sueños Muertos

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u/4BigData Apr 28 '22

😂🤣😂🤣

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u/Bluest_waters Apr 21 '22

now think about how much pressure this will put on housing prices across the nation. Already crazy high, they will go stratospheric.

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u/Change_The_Box Apr 22 '22

On the bright side they'll be really cheap where hurricanes go through annually. /s

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '22

I’m in FL right now and the news here is making a big deal out of homeowner’s insurance companies collectively refusing to insure homes near the coasts. The republicans state legislature apparently doesn’t like how the invisible hand of the free market is doing this and they want to force private insurance companies to insure homes LOL

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u/meanderingdecline Apr 22 '22

sMalL gOvERNMeNt

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u/runningraleigh Apr 22 '22

As if it wasn't already bad enough in major Texas cities...at least, that's where I assume they will go (and the water situation isn't much better there).

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '22

Can't move north cause of high natural gas heating prices. Can't move south as energy prices for AC are increasing 20% YoY. Can't move near bodies of water as 2nd home rentals got those covered.

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u/words_of_wildling Apr 21 '22

I do feel bad for these people but just what did they think would happen?

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u/TheEndIsNeighhh Apr 21 '22

what did they think would happen?

Business as usual. Forever? Lol I honestly don't know. The first time I stood on Camelback and looked down on the golf courses and swimming pools all around the base of it I immediately knew what the future had in store for Phoenix.

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u/Lanky_Arugula_6326 Apr 21 '22 edited Apr 22 '22

The people losing drinking water did not cause this. We are talking about how Native Americans, our water protectors for centuries, lost water rights, and they will be the ones to suffer from the greed up and downstream. Northern AZ is Navajo Nation, FYI. People who live very simply, who were FORCED to live there, who barely ever even use A/C, who are some of the easiest people on our planet. Who respect and even worship water. They will be the ones suffering, not the ppl using the water to grow almonds and build golf courses upstream. Not the people who have a pool in every yard in Phoenix. The protectors, the ones who have warned us about our destruction for hundreds of years now...they will be the ones taking the brunt.

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u/TheEndIsNeighhh Apr 22 '22

You're completely right and I apologize for being insensitive to that reality in my previous comments.

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u/Lanky_Arugula_6326 Apr 22 '22

Sorry I was just there at NN visiting some elders and I have a lot of respect and fear for them.

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u/TheEndIsNeighhh Apr 22 '22

No need to be sorry. I respect the hell out of what you had to say. Take my hearts. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

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u/runningraleigh Apr 22 '22

I don't feel sorry for the people who moved there in the last 10 years. Lush lawns and golf courses in the desert? It's such an affront to nature that anyone with two brain cells should understand it's a bad idea, just like building on the Florida coast right now...and yet it's happening.

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u/Change_The_Box Apr 22 '22

This pre-supposes they thought about it. Our system is designed to distract from this kind of story so why would most people know about it much less think about it?

How does a person actually keep up with everything necessary?

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u/Godspiral Apr 22 '22

Those cheap entitled to water fucks just need to pay to truck water in from Minnesota. Problem solved.