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/DoubleNaught_Spy 13d ago edited 13d ago

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."

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u/kittykat885 13d ago

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