Tucson Running out of Water
April 7, 2007
Post Tags: conserving_water , desert-landscaping , harvesting-rainwater , Tucson-Running-out-of-Water , Tucson-sand-trout , tucson_water
No water, No water,
anywhere, anybody got a drink.
This week the Tucson news for a change didn’t have some outlandish article on the decimated housing market. Instead, mostly using print from national news feed and not talking much about what is going on in the local market. We received a steady stream (pun intended) of Tucson and Southern Arizona running out of water.
Last October I wrote this post on:
Is Tucson Running out of Water It is a good place to start reading about the issue. It is time again to address this issue as I’m certain there are many people wondering what is going on in Tucson, is it going to be a desert? Is it going to be as portrayed in “Final Fantasy” “The Great Wasteland of Tucson”? Oh, by the way, it is a desert.
Ever since I moved to Tucson in August 1999 there have been articles and news pieces that appear every few months saying there is a giant conspiracy to keep the lid on the “fact” that Tucson is running out of water. It is spring and that time of year for the issue to raise it’s head once again.
Is water an issue in Tucson? OF COURSE IT IS WE LIVE IN A DESERT.
Are Hurricanes an issue in Florida?
Are Floods an issue in the Midwest?
Every part of our great country has issues, how those issues are met, considered, and dealt with is important.
Tucson Water where to start
There is more information on this subject than I can cover in a single post. Therefore, I’m going to take the time to write several posts on this issue during the course of the week.
- Tucson Water In The News
- Conserving Water (by Home Design)
- Wasting Water (by Home Design)
- Harvesting Water
- Water Issues (Politics)
- Water Resources (Learning about water use in the desert)
This week in Tucson Water
I’m going to be attending a series of meetings this week all around our community where the main topic, or one of the topics covered is going to be water and water related issues in Tucson.
April 9, 2007 (Monday)
Location: Tucson Association of REALTORS®
2445 N. Tucson Blvd., Tucson
Time: 9 am – 1 pm
The Arizona Department of Real Estate
presents
Community Outreach & Education (COE) Services
Presentation will include:
• Information relating to subdivision law
• Moving company scams
• Contractor issues
• Water and waste-water concerns
April 10, 2007 (Tuesday)
Geasa-Marana Branch Library,
13370 N. Lon Adams Road.
6 to 8 p.m.
Brad Lancaster will present:
“Rainwater Harvesting for Dry Lands: Turning Water Scarcity into Water Abundance”
April 11, 2007 (Wednesday)
Pima County Cooperative Extension
4210 N. Campbell Avenue, Tucson
9:00am–12:00pm Desert Landscaping
1:00pm–3:00pm Harvesting Rainwater for Landscape Use
I’ll be reporting back what I learn from each of these meetings and forums.
It should be an interesting week. I’ll keep you posted.
Preview of the next post. Check out the bottom of the right hand navigation “Tucson In The News” there are links there to all the articles in the paper this week about water.
The picture above is a wash in Tucson, not a river.
We do have fishing in Tucson, mostly sand trout.
April 8th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
We don’t worry about water here in Minnesota. If we don’t get enough rain we have some concern. A couple of years ago Canada treid to take water out of lake superior and sell it to Japan. Sounds funny but it didn’t happen because the US won’t allow it. Honest I am not making it up.
The number one reason people have for not living in the twin cities is that we are the largest metro area so far north. That means cold and in the Winter about 8 hours of daylight which gets old in a hurry and our long summer days don’t really make up for it. 
April 8th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Every area seems to have its own natural disaster/issue to grapple with. The fact that Tuscons issue is one that is one that can be managed from start to finish seems like a positive thing. Much better than cleaning up after a flood or hurricane.