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Originally Posted by Por_sha911
Arizona residences shouldn't have lawns. The climate can't handle that amout of water. Having agriculture in a historically dry arid areas is insane.
Developers overpopulate (residence, commercial, or agricultural) in low rainfall areas and then blame water shortages on climate change. No, you picked a bad area.
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I agree to a point.
First, there is a tremendous shortage of housing in this country. We've known it for quite some time, but the barriers to building (municipal and state fees, environmental concerns) have created a systemic problem. So what little is being built is still very much in demand (even with the increase in mortgage rates).
And those developers, they only build houses where people want to live, and that's usually driven primarily by where jobs are. It does them no good to build in rural Missouri, for example, if there's no large employment base.
Better water resource management, combined with less turf, less golf courses etc would help.
As far as crops go, I suspect if they become to expensive to irrigate they will eventually move to less arid climes.
And then there's industry, which seems to me easier to relocate to areas with more plentiful water resources.
My $.02 anyways.