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PoindexterOglethorpe

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5. I don't think most people who actually live in places

Wed Feb 3, 2021, 12:52 PM

Feb 2021

like Phoenix or Las Vegas actually get it. They have lawns and back yard pools as if their water supply was bountiful and endless.

I live in Santa Fe, NM myself. The citizens of this city actually use about half the amount of water or people anywhere else in the country. Installing new backyard pools was forbidden in 1996. Very few people have lawns. I actually thought long and hard about moving to Santa Fe when I did so in 2008, because I was well aware of the problem of water in this part of the country. I was pleasantly surprised at how frugal people here are about water.

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Tensions rise over company's plan to sell Colorado River water in Arizona [View all] Kali Feb 2021 OP

The fact is though that the burbs use way less water than farms. Mosby Feb 2021 #1

growing food is different function Kali Feb 2021 #3

To get a good sense of the issue of water in the desert southwest, PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2021 #2

you can get an even better sense just living here Kali Feb 2021 #4

I don't think most people who actually live in places PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2021 #5

nothing like lawns, lots of green golfcourses, and artifical lakes to maintain the delusion Kali Feb 2021 #6

I have also lived in Phoenix and Tucson. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2021 #10

Two major operations Wellstone ruled Feb 2021 #7

I know a lot of alfalfa gets shipped overseas (insane!) Kali Feb 2021 #8

Sorry,don't have the names. Wellstone ruled Feb 2021 #9