Arizona community with dry wells..dream homes not allowed to hook up to city water

[Demovictory9]

[in2herbs]

1. If I'm right this is part of Gosar's district. Haven't heard a peep out of him about this.

Too busy being an insurrectionist, I guess.

[dem4decades]

2. City water is socialism, a good Republican knows socialism is a gateway for Communism.

[bello]

6. The "Are you a socialist" test?

Is your house on city water and sewer? If so, you are a socialist.

If you can’t take a shit without using society’s infrastructure, you’re
a socialist.

[Warpy]

7. Water lines need to be replaced if they're old lead lines and leaking

and that is an expensive proposition that involves digging up streets and then repaving them. Even then, the savings wouldn't allow those developer areas to be developed. The west is running out of water in a lot of places and a lot of people are going to have to come to terms with that. The guy who's talking about having water trucked in might have a chance. The nice lady in the cabin, no.

Arizona is going to be in particularly bad shape, there's already a lot of cracking from subsidence as groundwater has been pumped dry for agriculture and suburbs. Add to that the misery of brownouts during their raging hot summers because the big dams to the north aren't able to generate as much electricity.

If the drought goes on much longer, there will start to be internally displaced people in the US and I haven't seen any sign they've been thinking of that in DC as anything but a police problem.

[plimsoll]

9. I think at lest some portion of the homeless in the Seattle area are internally displaced people.

It's economic displacement true, but they're no less internal refugees.
There is an area along I5 that has homeless encampment (until the police come and roust them out again.) Going by there on a bike is probably one of the most depressing things you can do. The drought will just make this worse.

[Warpy]

10. You can say that about most homeless people all over the country

Before Reagan got in, the only homeless people I ever saw were street alcoholics living rough Neighborhood winos had places to live, not fancy but a roof and a lock on the door. Once Reagan got in, it wasn't just the winos who got pitched out onto the street, but whole families because wages had dropped so far behind inflation in the late 70s and Congress hadn't done a fucking thing about it. They'd bought the rich man's horse shit that wages caused inflation, rather than being a lagging indicator of it.

So here we are, the problem of homeless families with children in tow getting worse every year and Congress still won't do a fucking thing about it.You bet your ass they're internally displaced people, displaced by cupidity, stupidity, and a lack of political will.

[plimsoll]

14. I only have Puget Sound as an observation point.

You’re probably correct, but we’ve always had homeless as far as I can tell. In most respects we’ve been the end of the line, there’s really nowhere else to go. Not too long ago forested areas and urban regions where not too far apart. Creating a rough shelter was kind of possible, with suburban sprawl and growth, heavy forest for the homeless to hide in has disappeared close to the communities. The demographics of the homeless seems to have returned to the 1930’s though. At that time the area just south of Seattle had a large collection of shacks refered to as Hooverville. Apart from the more durable nature of the structures, little difference.

It’s particularly bad here at the moment due to the meteoric rise in housing costs.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

13. I have a buddy who lives in Phoenix. When we visited I was surprised he had a valve in his lawn ...

…. that gets water a couple times a week. They open it and it floods the lawn. This was 10 years ago. I’m sure things have changed.

When I said I thought they had water problems he said no they get runoff and there is some canal in the city, iirc.

[Warpy]

15. Covering those damned canals over would help

I live at 6000 feet in NM and had a small water feature in my back yard when the drought really got going. The water level would go down two inches a day in April-August. The altitude keeps us 15-25 degrees cooler than Phoenix, so I can imagine how much water those canals evaporate off during the summer.

Phoenix has been especially stupid about water,. Southern California is trying to be smarter, but it's already too late for that California lifestyle. A cousin said something about a shower every 2 weeks last summer. This summer it might be 3.

This is the other problem they're having in AZ from making the desert bloom:

Parts of southern California, northern Mexico, and especially Mexico City are also subsiding at a huge rate. West Texas is set to join them.

[Auggie]

3. As if they couldn't see this coming ...

You know people did. Some were silenced. Others took the real estate commissions and/or graft and moved away.

[NCjack]

8. I think you are correct. The smart cashed in and have departed for wetter climates.

[Demovictory9]

11. I wonder what the market value is of a home with no water

[Irish_Dem]

4. The word "water" is not in the US Constitution so they need to get over it.

[Traildogbob]

5. 😂🤣😆😂

[Demovictory9]

12. Lol 😀