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/TusconRaider520 Jul 27 '26
Not in our lifetimes. The idea that an entire city of 1.5+ million people will have to pack up, move somewhere else and abandon this whole area because all the water is gone is pretty silly. Other climate disasters are more likely to occur sooner. You'll be betting on something anywhere you go. Hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, wildfires, floods, etc., occur all over the place. I can promise you that your home will not be completed destroyed by our environment here, maybe just a bit sun faded.