Arizona Water Crisis | My Raw & Honest Opinion

After reading and interviewing about the Arizona water crisis I have come to the conclusion that the near-term situation is not dire. However, some areas of the state will feel an impact very soon if not already. Conservation is critical but not the solution. We need another source for water and that will be expensive.

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[clickapro]

We all need to ask our HOA's to not overseed in the winter. It seems like a simple first step to conserve more water. It's not a costly change to the landscaping like converting to all desert and we can do it right now.

[JudyinAZ]

I have SRP flood irrigation for my 3/4 acre. I’m allowed 90 minutes. I take 20 minutes.

[johnwakamatsu]

I live in Los Angeles and have been told to reduce water usage by twenty percent. I agree that the short term solution is water conservation but the long term solution is going to be expensive. The drought covers more than the Southwest United States and is becoming a global problem due to climate change. There is enough carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to increase global temperatures and energy production needs to move away from burning fossil fuels. The people including me tend to be reactive and not proactive and that is the biggest problem.

[patrickm]

Agree, in general, Houses in Phoenix use Much less water than most cities. Just raise the Price of water, and people will find solutions.

[Jacqueline_Smith]

I agree, I have often wondered why can we not capture water in our good monsoon years? Great series of videos and looking forward to future water videos Rick!

[RH-xdnx]

I wonder how many Swimming pools are here in Az..gotta be hundreds of thousands and counting. Filling those things up including refilling when it's levels are low every now and again must bring havoc on our water supplies

[stevenrains]

Three simple solutions.... Stop flood Replace grass with native Reclaim (No septic. Sewer only ).

[michaelmiddleton]

Great take! Thank you!
Sure, pipe it in from the Mississippi, if they'll allow that. As a resident of the Pacific Northwest I can assure you that AZ will not be tapping into the Columbia to help fix their decades long policy of unbridled development, and poor agricultural practices. NOT A DROP!!!

[michaelmatusa]

Thanks Rick. The solution is going to have to be all of the options. Conservation probably offers the most bang for the buck right now. I am going to steer clear of HOAs with lots of grass to maintain when I move out there.

[-qj]

Do you have a more favorable opinion about Apache County- more specifically the ShowLow area and the Coconino aquifer? What are your thoughts?

[thecasualrver]

I lived in Lake Havasu for 15 years until 2007 then was transferred to SE Michigan. Here in SE Michigan we are surround by freshwater lakes and of course the Great Lakes, fresh water is very clean and abundant but we still conserve our water, 95% of city water, i.e. what goes down the drains is recycled and reused. We were thinking about moving back to AZ but the water and power issues put an end to that thought. If any AZ HOA does not know about water conservation grants, State and Federal grants to remove non essential grass by now, they need to be removed from their HOA boards.

[climbeverest]

Is water harvesting an option? Collectively every house roof collecting water either for central storage or at their home tanks, covering swimming pools when not in use, will these make a difference

[patimastbrook]

Good video the elite don’t need real grass on golf courses ⛳️🏌️‍♀️🏌️‍♂️
The boaters need the water 🛶⛴🚣‍♀️🛳 or maybe the fisherman 🎣🐠🐟🐠

[jackpanella]

Do you want to fix the problem?

Clean up the watersheds.

For approximately the past 15 years, there has been a man-made inversion in the Millet Swale watershed, southeast of Snowflake, Arizona.

The inversion was intentionally formed and maintained.

Look at the barometric pressures in the region. The pressures are unnaturally high.

The high pressures in the region have been blocking atmospheric circulation.

I have made a lot of progress in addressing the situation over the past decade, despite subversive activity to maintain the inversion. See the National Temperature and Precipitation Maps over the past decade.

Monsoon 2021, Monsoon 2022 and recent California rainfall are the evidence.

Clean up the watersheds.

[lovlycu]

Somewhere recently I heard California is the worlds largest grower of rice, which needs to be flooded.