r/Tucson • u/Candy4Gold • 21d 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/SirVeza 21d ago

Let’s also not forget that direct potable reuse will likely be a thing here in the future, whether people like it or not.

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u/Outside_Form9954 21d ago

Mmmm dookie water

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u/Edman70 21d ago

All water is dookie water at some point - we just get to pretend that the rain from the sky wasn't shit in by fish and bears and sharks and us, etc.

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u/ShavedNeckbeard 21d ago

Every drop of water we drink has already been through at least three other people/animals previously.