A community outside of Phoenix is furious after being cut off from its municipal water supply. NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard has more on how residents in the Rio Verde Foothills are doing everything to bring water back to their homes as others question why developers continue to build on dry land.
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I buy homes….even without water.
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No one feels bad for any of these people. WTF do you expect when you move to the desert
🙏🏾✝️🛐💙🙌🏾🙌🏻… Things we take for granted… I'm praying the State of Arizona 🥰🙏🏾🚰🙌🏾🙌🏻
So surely there is a ban on anyone moving into the area? It would certainly be irresponsible to allow people to move into a city that can't provide current residents with water
Prepare for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ!!!
Let's keep making missions to the moon and Mars. We got it all figured out here on this great planet
Stop moving to Arizona! Stop populating places where we shouldn't be. Why isn't our government helping figure it out?
And so it begins…..
cry a river & it will fill back up
LOL I knew this would happen now you can raise the prices & they have no where to go lol & charge them more for that sweet ice they want in their tea LOL yes
You live in the desert.. That was your choice now deal with it. Just like they wanted to run a pipe from the headwaters of the Mississippi over to one of the reservoirs out west. Then the Mississippi ran dangerously low. Move somewhere where there is water. Simple..
Unchecked growth. A refusal to form their own water district to avoid expanding government. Zero sympathy. Pack up and leave. You chose wrong.
It's all settlers! Just go back to your other cities and stop building when we have no water. No one should feel bad for these people when places like Jackson and Navajo Nation are constantly fighting for clean water.
“Small but fast growing area…..”
Yea, about that…….
MOVE!!! God does not want there to be civilization in this part of the world! Go to the Midwest! Go to Alaska! The Arizona Deserts are inhospitable!
“Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.”
― Bill Mollison (Founder of Permaculture)
Stupid reporting. Rio Verde IS NOT a suburb of Scottsdale. RIO VERDE RESIDENTS WERE TOLD FOR YEARS THEY WOULD NOT RECEIVE SCOTTSDALE WATER. It's on the residents to have taken care of the problem. STOP WHINING AND FIX YOUR OWN PROBLEM.
MEN- BE A HERO! PLEASE CLEAN THE OCEAN. 🌊
They need to sue the Contractors who built the houses.
When you elected those communists that’s what you get time to impeach them and put some real Americans in office
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Lmao. Let them starve.
They knew when they built there that there was no water and gambled the house bc their white privilege has always gotten them their way their whole lives so they believed it would eventually get them the water they believed they are ENTITLED to. It isn't working like it it used to for them.
“ Bypassed the city” and started building 1000 new houses? The city saw what was going on and did nothing.
Republicans 😄😄😄😜
You scene the profit Mohammed?
Move soon people out of other areas in az cause this looks like it will happen in other areas
I was visiting a friend in wilhoit n Kirkland- right below Prescott- n one well went dry their n that community started tapping in their well, it looked like soon wilhoit n Kirkland will run out of water
Strawberry n pine already ran out of water
"States where legislatures have not raised the minimum above the federal $7.25 an hour include Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina. All have child poverty rates of 20% or higher."
None of these people believe in climate change or want solutions they just want everything handed to them until there's nothing left
For over ten years community leaders and even scientists have been trying to tell people building and moving into the Foothills they need to find their own source of water. I feel sorry for the residents but they were warned. No different than someone building on a fault line. They are betting against nature. They need to go after the developers and the politicians that weakened the laws that allowed the developers to build where there was no water.
It’s happening. We’ve been watching this slow moving train wreck for 20 years.
Good riddance. Safety and survival are personal responsibilities. God forbid that people actually have to shoulder those responsibilities. I live off grid on solar and am hauling all of my own water until I can complete my rain collection system. I have no sympathy for people who chose to move to a desert while expecting others to make life possible for them there without them having to change their way of life. Meanwhile, the cost of food is rising dramatically and people are talking about cutting the water supply to farmers because apparently spending even more importing food sounds like a good solution to our problems. This is what happens when you prioritize new development, car washes and swimming pools over environmental stability. This is what happens when you move to a desert while expecting to live like you're located by the Great Lakes. This is what happens when you hold other people and communities responsible for your own safety and survival.
How did the state or county allow the builder to skirt the 100 year water rule?
I can’t believe how much privilege these people all feel they have.
How are you going to move to the desert and still expect to have water? Entitlement is going to break this country.
You live in the desert. Duuuuuh?