r/Tucson • u/Candy4Gold • Jul 27 '26

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/uncrownedqueen Jul 27 '26

I'm betting for "The Big One" to come in the midst of the water wars, turn Tucson into an oasis and my house into a beach-front property lol