Arizona Limits Construction Around Phoenix as Its Water Supply Dwindles

[marybourg]

In what could be a glimpse of the future as climate change batters the West, officials ruled there’s not enough groundwater .

Arizona has determined that there is not enough groundwater for all of the housing construction that has already been approved in the Phoenix area, and will stop developers from building some new subdivisions, a sign of looming trouble in the West and other places where overuse, drought and climate change are straining water supplies.

The decision by state officials very likely means the beginning of the end to the explosive development that has made the Phoenix area the fastest growing metropolitan region in the country.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/climate/arizona-phoenix-permits-housing-water.html

[Enter stage left]

1. Las Vegas will happen soon.

[walkingman]

2. I wish Texas would do the same - here they approve development knowing there is not enough water

and them approve a pipeline to bring the water to the growth areas using eminent domain if necessary. The State has made it a felony to protest a pipeline in Texas.

For some reason people seem to think that unlimited growth is good. All it does is decrease quality of life and make a few greedy bastards wealthy.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. The entire economic system is based and predicated on endless growth

Both in terms of resource/energy extraction, and population growth.

It's entirely a house of cards that collapses without it. And that's because it's massively leveraged through debt, which in turn, depends on growth.

Not saying that's how it SHOULD be, but just how it is

[marble falls]

3. About 40 or 50 years too late.