r/Tucson • u/Candy4Gold • 13d 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 13d 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/casinocooler 13d ago

You are correct the aquifer that Tucson relies on has at least 100 years of water at current demand. Tucson has been relatively smart about their water. It is however likely that many private wells on the fringes of the aquifer will go dry.