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Originally Posted by tabs
I suspect one day in the future I will turn the water tap on and nothing but sand will come out...
Sooner of later the tap to S CA is going to be turned off... life in S CA is going to change rather dramatically...Starbucks will be selling water for $4 a mug...a shower will cost ya $20.
There will be a moratorium on building residential swimming pools and existing ones are going to pay a heavy water tax... it will probably come to the point where a swimming pool will actually DECREASE the value of a home..
Grass lawns are a thing of the past...the Water dept actually pays home owners to remove their lawns..that has been in place here for about 17 years.. Some people replace them with AstroTurf lawns..at least ya don't have to mow nor water them...
The world as you knew it is gone..
PS I could also be talking about your economic world here .....but I won't because you Boyz all get the idear.
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Typical rainbows and puppy dogs post from Tabs however he makes some comments that are already happening.
New (massive) housing developments in Phoenix are having to scale back the number of homes planned because they can't guarantee a reliable source of water. And no grass allowed in the front yard. Thousands of homes are planned to be built using groundwater as their source. Tables are already dropping. The shortsightedness is incredible.
In Rio Verde Foothills North of Scottsdale, the residents have been told to find their own source of water - drill or have it hauled in. Some are drilling and not hitting water. Their source, which has been the town of Scottsdale, told them no more water after January 1st, 2023.
Things will get interesting in the next few years, I'm glad I don't live in Phoenix anymore.