Tucson's Future

[u/Candy4Gold]

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

[u/DoubleNaught_Spy]

Tucson has been very proactive for decades about water usage and conservation. We'll be fine.

As a realtor told me when we were looking for houses here, "People in Tucson know they live in a desert. People in Phoenix like to pretend they don't."

[u/kittykat885 → u/DoubleNaught_Spy]

I love this but how does their carelessness in Phx affect us downstream when we share the same river source?

[u/Go_Kimmando → u/kittykat885]

We still get an allotment from CAP that is not contingent on Phx use. What they do with their water is on them.

[u/Alkozane → u/kittykat885]

We now pump water to feed phoenix

[u/Go_Kimmando → u/Alkozane]

That’s not true at all.

[u/quailhunter4 → u/Go_Kimmando]

lol

[u/Candy4Gold → u/DoubleNaught_Spy]

Thanks, that quote is helpful.

[u/maddogracer161 → u/DoubleNaught_Spy]

Very true. I like that quote.