Out Arizona Way

[ezdays]

I found it very interesting as well. To be honest there are some places humans were not meant to live and I think you might be in one of them. Same for those that live in flood plains or low lying areas in hurricane country or.......................... 10 inches of rain per year isn't enough to support human life so the developers have to steal/buy  it from someplace else.

You're right, that's why back in the last century, they  built the Central Arizona Project (fondly called "the CAP" around here). It's a very long ditch over 300 miles long carrying Colorado River water to the Phoenix area and beyond. That, our dammed up river reservoirs and pumping lots of ground water gives those developers what they want and need. That being said, there's a housing development just outside the Phoenix area that is not getting the go-ahead because of the lack of water. There is a point where even developers can't get their way. I also wonder that maybe someday, the whole Phoenix area will fall into a giant sinkhole from depletion of groundwater. Oppps, there goes the Hyatt Hotel....