If you can't admit you're in the most socialistic state in the nation (you are), or even if you can, but know your neighbors, and more importantly, your state legislature, can't or won't, you need to move.
That's as BuRec says MAJOR new water cuts are coming. And, per this piece, as Aridzonans aren't close to meeting the self-mandated cuts of a year ago.
The best way of reducing water in Aridzona? (Not that it's going to meet these targets.)
1. Fallowing ALL FARMS. ALL.
2. People moving. Sorry, and with family there. Aridzona's not close to meeting its current water cut targets and people living in arguably the most socialist state in the nation aren't adjusting.
2A. The federal government refusing to guarantee new mortgages in Aridzona. Ed Abbey was 127 percent right on this: "Growth for growth's sake is the theology of the cancer cell." Dear Leader probably could have figured out a way to do something about this in the Great Recession. Truly make homeowers "whole" if they moved back to where the water is, and refusing to buy loans on new developments until the feds signed off on water supply.
Besides, it's not just getting hotter (and more humid) it's getting more unhealthy. Ever acre of fallowed farmland is another acre of agrichemical dust blowing into Phoenix. That's not to count the Salton Sea, which will never be "fixed" and which the Imperial Irrigation District is using as a smokescreen, in my opinion.
Prer Ed Abbey, as illustrated by the IID, this "growth culture" isn't going away. We need to kill it dead.
Aridzona could easily stand to lose 2 million people, and not all from Phoenix. Tucson could lose a few hundred thousand; Central Arizona Project water takes yet more energy to pump it past Phoenix to there, and further uphill to boot. Yuma could lose some people. The Vegas exurbs on both sides of the river. Vegas itself could stand to lose half a million. The godawful monstrosity called St. George, Utah, needs to lose at least half its population.
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