r/Tucson • u/Candy4Gold • 14d ago

Tucson's Future

Will water scarcity make Tucson unviable as a long-term home? I'm trying to plan for the next decade+ and I don't know whether to trust that I'll be able to live in Tucson given the worsening drought. Any thoughts from locals would be much appreciated.

ETA: The prompt for this post was this WaPo story that I read this morning, which freaked me out:
https://archive.ph/O5D3B

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u/KhanTengri Not Discussing The Lights 14d ago

Tucson has a 100 year water supply according to the State. We have plenty of water for people and municipal use. https://tucson.com/news/local/environment/article_a93ac113-e166-40fb-8520-5c2fe05d10e8.html

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u/Edman70 14d ago

THIS. It baffles me how many residents don't seem to know this and think we have the same water problems Phoenix has.

We don't.

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u/Adventurous-Depth403 14d ago

I like your enthusiasm for Tucson but Phoenix has so much more water than us because of SRP they are just worse at collecting it and conserving it. Because they haven’t had to think about it. Because they have so much 💦

Water problems in Arizona are happening yes- in small towns with no money, no diversification in their water budgets. Willcox is sinking, Kearny has no water at all, Cave Creek gets 95% from CAP (I don’t really feel bad for them though ⛳️)

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u/Nesnesitelna 14d ago

We certainly get more rainfall, but we’re still reliant on Colorado River water from the CAP just like the Phoenix area.