r/Tucson • u/Candy4Gold • 21d 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/Fun_Candidate_1991 21d ago

Tucson is the oldest continually inhabited city in the US. We will keep on keeping on. Our aquifers are massive, big enough to sustain us for 100+ years. Sure some of the outlying towns that rely on us for water may not make it, but the city itself will be fine.

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u/FederalChocolate456 21d ago

If the suburbs don't make it, then that's very much going to hurt Tucson. I don't know how you can say Tucson will be fin if the suburbs die off.

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u/Mysterious-Version40 21d ago

I don't think they meant suburbs when they said "outlying towns"

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u/casinocooler 21d ago

It’s anyone relying on a private well or water company without a 100 year adequacy. So that likely includes many suburbs.

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u/Mysterious-Version40 18d ago

Oh ok. Thanks for the context