Anthropogenic global warming LOL, I was wondering when someone would try
passing that shameful superstition as fact again after it was just about
laughed off the world stage. Water is a real issue here but when you have
some crackpot wanting more government funding involved it serves to discredit
that fact. I am sure we will hear more horror stories about cow flatulence
causing the end of the world and unless government gets more money we will
all die…again. Just like the mini ice age that was predicted in 1976, The
1960’s overpopulation scare that said worldwide unemployment crisis by
1980, DDT cancer scare of 72. The huge aerosol scare of the 80’s. IPPCs
constantly downward revisions, Etc. A government tax, yea that will fix
everything! LOL

I concur with all these suggestions. What is ever necessary makes good sense.

It’s not so much too little water (although we are in a twelve-year drought
period), it’s that there are too many people. The planet is over-populated
and the U.S. has a third-world growth rate thanks largely to immigrants.
Arizona is the first or second fastest growing state (alternates with Nevada
for that “honor”) and both are water shy. Traditionally, we’ve engineered our
way out of shortages by diverting more from rivers, building dams or drilling
groundwater wells. But many rivers, including the Colorado and the Rio
Grande, already dry up each year. The dam-building era from the 1930s-1960s
left us with only 60 rivers in the country remaining free-flowing. Here, we
are over-drafting our aquifer and if we continue the Fort will be relocated
or downsized because it’s future depends upon maintaining water flow in the
San Pedro River. So start to control growth or the water that would go to the
San Pedro River (saving the Fort) will instead be used for new (useless)
 people.

Various water savings techniques are just stop-gap schemes which will not
stop the eventual drying out of our water source. Every new family to the
area wipes out the water savings in use by four existing families. The best
solution is to put an immediate cap on growth within the county.

Amen, Auntie Em! There is no good reason for not incorporating rainscapes,
rainwater harvesting and/or graywater systems into all new construction. As
for golf courses in the desert, well, that’s just lunacy. Besides, don’t golf
courses have little ponds that breed mosquitoes?

So what do you suggest, that your “should be” ideas be enforced or be
voluntary choice? What will direct the closure of our golf courses? Will
enforcement come in the form of fines, higher taxes, or is one taken behind
the building and shot? If we can believe our hydrologists, the we have enough
ground water for another couple of hundred years, why worry about it, right?

Everyone should have water catchment systems, and all new buildings should
have water catchment built in. Also, graywater systems should be installed in
all new buildings and old buildings retrofitted to use graywater. And no more
golf courses! A golf course can use more than a MILLION gallons of water a
day. That is a poor use of water in the desert. Yes, golf courses bring
tourists. But the desert needs no more golf courses.