..at some point we will not have a choice in the matter but why wait till then...but we are human. We are not proactive about life if it interrupts our daily desires.
Moved out of Az a few years ago. When I drove over the Hoover Dam, I cried inside. I had never seen the water intake foundations. Water was always up to the spill point almost and those intakes are over 100' tall. The "bath tub" ring at the shore was at a least 150-200'.
Real seriousness on conserving water in the SW would also mean no grass yards, no manicure landscapes with a fountain in front of every business center, nothing bigger then 3-4 deep play pools if pools allowed at all, not the deep diving pools, no golf course, no carwashes. Seeing a broken sprinkler just gushing out water in front of some ones home onto the street is a usual sighting in the Valley of the Sun.
When I was in LA we had no car wash days but those were nothing more than a feel good measure.
Fresh water is a finite resource and we are running out of it in 1000's upon 1000's of wasteful ways. Sure a good %'age of the water soaks back down to the water table and gets reused but not 100% eventually as weather patterns change and the winter snow pack becomes less and less the water will disappear.
There are some who think this is no big deal. Weather always a changes and we will deal with it. However we have no clue what the full impact will be. Earth has a 26,000 year Precession. We have no idea how a full rotation really plays out on this planet. Our documented history does not go back that far. Due to the 23 degree tilt of the planet that Precession has a huge impact on Weather. It is thought this has been the cause of the continuous advance and recession of the planets ice ages. Other seem to think we will be able to remove all the salt we need from Ocean water and make all the fresh water need. This will not work like that not at current population levels and certainly will not sustain these levels.
We have seen wars fought over security, money, oil. none of these are a must have like water. That would be a very different war.
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