Water Issues on Here and Now
Listen to Here and Now Wednesday, January 17th from 11 until noon when host Steve Goldstein and guests discuss Arizona's dwindling water supply in rural Arizona.
Some areas such as Payson and Williams continue to grow while the amount of water available stays the same or declines. Several urban counties require developers to prove they have a 100-year supply of water for any new homes built -- but that's not the case in rural Arizona. Next Wednesday on here and now, we'll look at proposals to ensure an adequate water supply from the statewide water advisory group.
To ask a question during the show, call 480-774-8200 or you can post a question ahead of time by clicking on the link below.
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Why continue to approve private swimming pools with so much water concern? Why not require cisterns with new developements or when putting in pools?
How many golf courses do we need? Why do we allow/encourage the planting of lawns? If one requires a lawn, one needs to relocate to a climate that can readily support same. What has happened to the idea of municipal swimming pools-socially and conservationally
practical! The notion that we can have anything we wish in any locale we wish to place ourselves is fast becoming a fable. Shall we continue to allow the developers to call all the shots regarding our water supply? The water supply we rely on can support only a certain size population and business community. Additionally, how large do we wish to grow this state given that larger has proven so frequently not to be better!! Each state has its own unique qualities. We are trying to be something other than what defines us. We are a state of vast desert landscapes where most of our population lives. Consequently, water is always going to be a factor, a factor that should not be lightly dealt with.
Have all new homes built with recirculation hot water. It takes 1 1/2 gal. of water to get hot water to the kitchen in our house. Multiply that with 5 times a day times number of homes.
Use low flushing toilets and low stream shower heads. Time your shower, should be no more than 5 minutes.
Please ask the question why do we need to grow so much to begin with? Honestly, how does having so many people everywhere, all of the time, benefit us and our quality of life? Used to be we could get out of town and go fishing or hiking and actually get away. Now theres a traffic jam both heading up and down the hill. And when you do get to where your going, your met by tons of people anyways, defeating the purpose of getting away.
Hi Steve, and thanks for doing this show. I live in Prescott and am active in trying to protect the Verde River. Prescott is trying to take that water to fuel the rampant growth here. Their plan is to build a pipeline from the headwaters near Pauldin. Last Tuesday this issue was addresses on the BBC World News which led with the fact that the Verde river is on the 10 most endangered, wild rivers IN THE WORLD. We must consider this aspect in your conversation. Thanks very much, Juanita
What about the Coconino DeCelle aquifer? This aquifer covers a large area of the four-corner states. How is it figured into the Arizona's water plan? Is there a serious impact to this resource from development and mining?
In looking down the road, I keep asking myself what the future of even Phoenix and Tucson might be, not to mention all the other states in the desert Southwest who rely on the Colorado River, if warming climatic trends reduce the snow melt yield in the Rockies -- the source of the Colorado.
Cheers,
James
Thank you - I got cut-off... :-| Is there any more information on the waterless urinal article that was done a year or so ago that was mentioned on the phone?
I have a DEMAND recirc system and love the water it saves - each city should mandate this - however I think such technologies need to be mandated at a state level.
