Water

[BiggsHomes]

They tried to limit the amount of turf that you could legally grow in your yard, but the law did not pass. Thankfully the vast majority of people in the Prescott area do not have lawns. In Prescott Valley, the average water use per person (120 gallons per day) is less than half of the water usage in Phoenix. Phoenix is importing water from the Colorado river, but alas up north we have no Colorado river water.

What makes me sick is driving on Hwy-60 to I-10 to California and seeing all of the farms. This is the desert! The most sad fact is that the water from the farms leaches back into the Colorado river after picking up tremendous salts from the soil. There is so much salt that they had to build a desalinization plant on the Colorado river in order to reduce the amount of salt in the water that crosses the border into Mexico. What a waste! Why not buy out the farmers' land instead?

[flycessna]

Originally Posted by crewbank

Tucson is a completely different animal, and is slowly sinking into itself as the water table collapses despite influx from CAP. Those Ronstadts really did a number on that place.

I was down in Tuscon in january. I am from back east and was out visiting a friend in Phoenix. Anyways while walking around the campus area we stopped buy a drilling crew that was drilling a well for the university. Aparently the university supplies ALL of its own water....at least thats what I was told. I suprised to here they were aboe to do that. The last well lasted 30 years. this one they said should last another 30-50...but who really knows.