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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Sam Kinison had a bit about people living in deserts.
這是推薦的剪輯
https://youtu.be/q4dM7tie-U8
Yup… Sadly he died in the desert on his way to Laughlin…
😂
WHY DON’T YOU MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS?!!!??!!!!
Not listening to government warnings is a american tradition.
老實說，我們都記得這個視頻：-
https://youtu.be/RmKA26-CNBU
Keep believing that 🤣🤣
@mppchill It’s not belief I see it all the time.
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.
Don’t ask for help when your city gets knocked by a natural disaster than.
@I’m bill gates so Rio Verde not planning and paying for a watersupply of their own is a natural disaster? how about the inaction since Scottsdale told them to stop mooching on water.. natural disaster?
@I’m Bill Gates It’s a good thing I never ask for help then. I didn’t ask for help when that factory in port neches, Tx exploded nor did I ask for help when texas got that freeze in 2021. However, there’s a difference between a disaster and just being a stupid leech, this is the latter.
@Alexander Hatchwell I’d take AC over heat in this desert…. I can survive a winter with no heater out here. I can’t say the same when it’s 116 outside in the summer
@Alexander Hatchwell you’re the first person to be asking for a stimulus check. Don’t kid yourself.
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)
aqui estan los shorts completos!!
https://youtu.be/8LNSEIaZukY
Maybe yes. And so many people have moved to Phoenix that it went past Philly wrt population according to the last census.
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?
@Kenneth Green I especially find it sad that they had to try to lobby the Maricopa Co Board of Supervisors to help them, with members like Thomas Galvin a lifelong Republican and former lobbyist for the Saudi company exporting water intensive alfalfa out of the country…
I don’t
You moved to the desert and complain about the water
@Ajax 7ox palm springs is a desert with a huge lake underneath residents have fresh water at low cost .people move their
@Based Oz They could have built that same house anywhere else in the valley. Stop crying, knew for years this was coming but you want to feel so special.
Heh, heh. Desert life myth busted.
LMAO… good luck living in Arizona with no water… thank your Republican governor for selling water to the Saudi!!
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
Its a city of a population of 2000, they can’t afford 2 or 3 even as a city. And individuals are unlikely to be able to afford 1 either.
Our water table has dropped below the level required to use a well.
Wow, what insight! Dig a well was number 1? Where do you come up with these gems?
@beo exactly, people move into the middle of nowhere to save money, and they act surprised when they no longer have expense high production facilities to supply them with resources.
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.
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.
You are speaking Facts
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.
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
Phoenix has one of the best tasting water. That’s just a simple fact. They have one of the best water treatment plants and continually rank in the safest and best tasting in the country.
What kind of idiots buys a house in a place with no stable water supply?
Slaves had to pick cotton without water or food in the heat…. so they’ll be alright!!!
How about NOT building in the DESERT. Boo hoo hoo.
They live in a desert. I’m not sure what to say.
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.
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 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!!!
Its city officials who new there was a problem could have fixed it but didn’t..
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
The ” fun” will begin when they will be forced to leave. Mass exodus to where though.
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.
Wow, so living in the middle of a desert might land you without water. Shocking, shocking.
They could seed those clouds and make it rain
What clouds?
@Yvonne Plant The clouds in the video.
Why are they building where there is no water? It’s only going to get worse, and they knew it going in.
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.
They built and bought in an area they *knew** had no guarantee of longterm water access and somehow it’s the town next door’s problem? Everyone warned them about moving outside of the limits, but they knew better and now they’re reaping the benefits of their “independence.”
These people aren’t even paying the taxes to Scottsdale for water rights that everyone else who lives in Scottsdale pays so screw them. They are wealthy and can find their own water supply.
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
Get a better job
You moved to the desert the complain about lack of water
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.
LMAO they knew this would happen tho 😂
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.
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
Five years seems like a reasonable amount of time to get your water source squared away. Someone dropped the ball…big time.
All that rain that filled up lake Mead I don’t understand why they don’t have water
Pay for a U-Haul.
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
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.
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
It might be best for them to collect rainwater, fill up at those pumps and get a well. These are things you have to consider before living off grid as while you can save money you have to have a backup plan just in case.
Well, they are having plenty right now. Meanwhile, northern is experiencing feet of snow
That’s going to be the whole state and south west
But, doesn’t the water just appear out of nothing?
Deregulation catching up. No sympathy.
People move into the middle of nowhere to save money, and they act surprised when they no longer have expensive high production facilities to supply them with resources. Its like, either live in a real city, or live somewhere with good land that supports you, can’t do both.
North water right,,
🤽🚣🏊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Stop the flow,,, wasteful RESOURCES…
rip
What happens when you vote Republican 😂😂😂😂
Say what you will about living off the grid yet I noticed the golf courses were nice and lush.