Residents of Rio Verde, a small, unincorporated community in Arizona, once purchased their water from nearby Scottsdale. Now the city has cut them off, citing its severe drought management plan. NBC News’ Gadi Schwartz has more details on the water shortage impacting the Southwest.
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I would say I feel bad but ppl are dumb. They’ve been talking about running out of water forever. And they are building more cities there lol at what point does your brain say hey maybe I should move now or start thinking about moving. On top of it those same ppl will be standing there like 3 year olds waiting on the same government that is making it worse by building more sht to turn around and help. I’ve got friends who moved there and hear more talking about going. Mental illness is at a all time high in America
If everyone could be so kind as to google the Gofundme for the Hangry Donkey Sanctuary in Rio Verde they need money for water. They rescue abused and neglected donkeys and rehab them and might have to euthanize some because water is 1800 a month. Let’s help them out folks, these donkeys have been through enough already and deserve to get water.
Just how selfish does one have to be to demand city services from a city you never, ever paid taxes to or fees to? Unreal the sense of entitlement
Pay for a U-Haul.
All that rain that filled up lake Mead I don't understand why they don't have water
Arizona native here… They were warned for over five years this was going to happen. I'm sorry this family of six is struggling but honey your husband was warned and he decided to stay and not move you all
I'm pretty sure our governor is making a deal with Israel to build a 5.5 billion dollar desalination plant where we can sort of mitigate our losses on the Colorado and elsewhere.
LMAO they knew this would happen tho 😂
They should have thought about this long time ago. They had all that time to acquire a permanent water source of their own, but was lax about it. This is what happens when you settle in the dessert.
You moved to the desert the complain about lack of water
Get a better job
When living in a desert you must know that water Will at some time become an issue you also must be aware that when you're moving to these places that you put your family at jeopardy by not having the stability of your own town having its own supply of water it's like going to a town that doesn't have a school Yet you have 2 school age children just homework needs to be done and accountability needs to put on both parties
So Scottsdale's idea to save water is cut off a handful of residents outside city limits? Not cut off golf courses, large businesses, parks, etc? Oh.
Why are they building where there is no water? It's only going to get worse, and they knew it going in.
They could seed those clouds and make it rain
Wow, so living in the middle of a desert might land you without water. Shocking, shocking.
A private unincorporated affluent desert enclave neighborhood with lush green golf course and swimming pools and jacuzzis in a water deprived drought stricken desert state. Aw, aren't you people special.
I don’t feel sorry for them. Take climate change seriously! Stop wasting food and water resources just because you think you can! Stop having multiple children
I saw another vid where they interviewed some resident out there recently collecting rain water in buckets & bins. You'd "think" this whole ordeal would be a huge wake-up call, but naw…at her "rock bottom" so-to-speak…she STILL had the audacity to say that she was going to use some of that water to run her dishwasher! 😧😣🤦♀💩 Like that's how privy & ignorant these people in that area are apparently. 🤷♀I mean it just doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that building housing, golf courses, swimming pools, et, in the desert is NOT a very smart idea!!!
And for people who don't have water, letting that gray water just go down your drains…. Foolish.
We all need to be conserving water.
I do not feel bad for these people. They moved there, knowing there was only poisonous well water. They are actively building there! People who chose to live in places wherein there is no water should move. I do not feel bad for selfish, stupid, planet-hating people. That dude who delivers water said his home had a poisonous well when he bought the place. That is why he created his business. That evil town has fountains, green grass at the government buildings, a golf course, and swimming pools. Screw them.
They live in a desert. I’m not sure what to say.
How about NOT building in the DESERT. Boo hoo hoo.
Slaves had to pick cotton without water or food in the heat…. so they'll be alright!!!
What kind of idiots buys a house in a place with no stable water supply?
OFF GRID Arizona community outside Scottsdale cut off from water
THEYRE OFF THE GRID
I BUY ALL MY DRINKING WATER FROM COSTCO THE CITY WATER IS NASTY
SOMETHING TO CONSIDER BEFORE BUYING OR PLANNING ON LIVING OFF GRID
Not enough useable water in the desert you say? They should have known what they were getting into before buying, did their research. Climate change will increase extended droughts and devastation, I wouldn’t buy a home without ensured access to a basic yet vital necessity of life.
Who choose to build a house without water rights and your supplier of water has threaten for years to cut off the water? These people. Well pull yourself up by the boot straps and find water young family. PS – That house with worthless now.
Their plan probably is to cut off water supply, buy up the homes cheap, then turn the water back on and sell the homes expensive.
So, water isn't as easy to get over there? The only things I can think of is:
1. Finding groundwater.
2. Recycling wastewater.
3. A pipeline
LMAO… good luck living in Arizona with no water… thank your Republican governor for selling water to the Saudi!!
Heh, heh. Desert life myth busted.
Feel bad they made a bad investment. Anyone who is from Arizona knows Rio Verde is a popular golf area, perhaps they should manage their own water better, before being mad at other cities. Especially considering these unincorporated areas are notorious areas where people move for less regulation and taxes. Now they are mad at cities they don’t pay taxes to for looking out for their own communities?
Arizona might be one of those places that might run out of water in the future, and with many people from California moving over, it ain't looking too hot out there (pun intended)
This isn't a new development, they knew that they were going to get cut off eventually, years ago. Don't live in the desert without access to the three main utilities, water, electricity, heat.