Alarm Bells Toll For Human Civilization As World's 12th Largest Mega-City To Run Out Of Water

[Warpy]

64. I live in one of the few water sustainable cities in the southwest--if we're careful

and while people are being very careful and consigning things like lawns to oblivion, there are still a few golf courses that haven't Astroturfed the fairways and corporations that maintain bright green lawns that are spray irrigated every other day. Those are the things that worry me, the use of potable water for decorative grass.

I don't get Phoenix and Las Vegas. The climate and jobs markets keep them growing, along with the real estate bust that led to reasonably priced houses. Unless the climatologists and meteorologists are both wrong, they are definitely going to run out of water and rather sooner than later. Either they migrate to that narrow strip of land on the upper west coat or they'll all have to go back east somewhere and it's not going to be pretty.

Potable water has always been in very short supply out west and it always will be. People might be drawn to the endless summer climate of the lower elevations, but they're going to have to make some big changes if they want to live out here. I don't see those changes happening in the "successful" cities like Phoenix, only in the very poor cities like mine.