In a few days, thousands of US Citizens will be without any water supply. (And that's a good thing!

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33. What a mess. And wildcat builders are building still more.

These smart, fairly well off home buyers for the sake of not being in a taxing district are gambling that their city neighbors won't let them go without any water. Well, wait until the city's share of the Colorado River water is less and less and less. You bet they're going to cut them off when it comes to not enough water for them, the people supporting the water treatment plants through their taxes. They are certainly not eager to share the Colorado River water to fill their swimming pools. Many of them already resent the allotment to the tribes who were there originally and know how not to waste water.

The Southwest is spectacular but it was never meant to support this many people AND grow the amount of agriculture that they do. While visiting my brother in Pheonix in the late 1980s I marveled even then the modest subdevelopment he was living in had little natural desert vegetation, almost everybody had plantings in their yards that were not native to the area and required watering. There was a large industrial farm just next to the subdevelopment with those mechanized waterers several times a day with subsequent visible loss of some of the water to evaporation. You could see some erosion of soil near some of the streets caused by nothing to hold the water and the soil together when the rains did come. This was 30 years ago and the boom has increased.

Trouble ahead. Horses drink a lot of water.