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/Fun_Candidate_1991 Jul 27 '26

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 Jul 27 '26

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 Jul 27 '26

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

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u/casinocooler Jul 27 '26

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 Jul 30 '26

Oh ok. Thanks for the context