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bakerdphd.bsky.social • 15 days ago

Groundwater is one of my big obsessions

Reposted from The Colorado Sun ☀️

Colorado River’s hidden, below-ground reservoir is quickly shrinking, researchers say

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msdavinci.bsky.social•15 days ago

More desert golf courses needed ..

bakerdphd.bsky.social•15 days ago

Someone told me they were moving to Arizona and mentally I was here

bakerdphd.bsky.social•15 days ago

This article lives rent free in my head

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/us/arizona-water-rio-verde-scottsdale.html

whitneyepi.bsky.social•15 days ago

Same, same

bakerdphd.bsky.social•15 days ago

They said we eat on paper plates because we don't have water and I took a walk around my whole apartment at the time

whitneyepi.bsky.social•15 days ago

The details I remember were the absurdity of these new houses built with these gleaming new dishwashers - and waiting for the huge water trucks… all the coordination and precarity. It still makes me tense up

whitneyepi.bsky.social•15 days ago

It was this photo! Now that I re-read the article, I see that it never used the word dishwasher. Instead,

it was this photo. At the time, it made me catch my breath… the disconnect btw the style of house and the extreme desert situation… like a flashback scene in an apocalypse movie…

sambent.bsky.social•15 days ago

Yes!

bseahawk14.bsky.social•15 days ago

Remember the Rio Verde water crisis and remembering that there are even more unincorporated towns popping up in Maricopa county

publichealthguy1.bsky.social•15 days ago

omg.

bakerdphd.bsky.social•15 days ago

I made my husband sit down and listen to me read this out loud

publichealthguy1.bsky.social•15 days ago

😅

sciencehippies.bsky.social•15 days ago

This is how I feel whenever people in blue metros talk about moving to more affordable regions. Good luck with that. Hope you do your research. I wish you the best. Buyer beware on low priced goods.

arrianna-planey.bsky.social•15 days ago

Same. I refuse to live west of the Mississippi. And I narrowed the list of places I'd consider living based, in part, on groundwater, freshwater availability & sustainability.

arrianna-planey.bsky.social•15 days ago

(California native)

bakerdphd.bsky.social•15 days ago

Yes water access was a big part of our move

joeschlotterbeck.bsky.social•15 days ago

My hunch is that there will be large scale wars fought over water at some point. ✌️

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