The Water Wars Come to the Suburbs | The New Yorker
As the Southwest enters its second decade of megadrought, and the Colorado River sinks to alarmingly low levels, Rio Verde, a largely upscale community that real-estate agents bill as North Scottsdale, though it is a thirty-mile drive from Scottsdale proper, is finding itself on the front lines of the water wars. Some homeowners wells are drying up, while others who get water delivered have recently been told that their source will be cut off on January 1st. It s going to turn into the Hunger Games, Harris said grimly. Like, a scrambling-for-your-toilet-water-every-month kind of thing. The fight over how best to address the issue is pitting neighbors against one another. Water politics are bad politics, Thomas Loquvam, the general counsel and vice-president of EPCOR, the largest private water utility in the Southwest, told me. You know that saying, Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting ? That s very true in Arizona.
Sounds like Arizona is running out of water.