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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#Arizona #Drought #Water
Actually called stupid. Building a dam City in the desert. Like a bunch of jackasses
Lmfao you can tell most of these Rio Verde residents never read anything on the Flint Michigan water crisis..
Urban planning major I can tell you Developers are rootless and don’t care will find ways to get what they want. They will sue local municipalities when they don’t get what they want. Now residents are mad at the local government. this is why is imperative to be involved in the community.
Oh, well. Build in the middle of the desert………. Who would have thought?
STOP expanding that area. Stop the growth, you have out grown your resources!
Actually they have outgrown everyone else’s resources at this point!
They should turn their pools into water catches. Smh
Continious development and golf courses in the desert… who woulda thought it would lead to a water shortage.
Remember the Anasazi. 20,000 years ago, after decades of plenty of desert water, climate change forced them to migrate and they had to abandon their cities. THE Aztecs had major climate change also as did the Romans. Guess the climate change has been going on for a very long time
Antarctica was once a tropical jungle
You guys are dumb for not moving out of there years ago.
Dumb for building and moving to a town in the desert with no water…forget moving away. Why is the town there in the first place?
Is this like Darwinism?
I went to the desert on a horse with no name, It felt good to be out of the rain. In the desert, they remember your name, cause their ain’t no one, to give you no shame – America
How are they going to provide water when the well is dry. It’s economically not feasible. I’d advise people to not move to areas of drought… smh at people who move to places like this…
Lets face it, humans are stupid.
I wonder why anyone would buy such expensive homes and NOT read the exclusions and covenants on the deeds.
That this whole community had NO a water rights was not a hidden bit of info. Scottsdale warn them last year that they would be without water from Scottsdale. They were warned multiple times that the ability to get water in truck tankers would end Jan 1. Maybe they thought that because their homes are so expensive, their money could force Scottsdale to give them water any way? I just cannot figure out how people can be smart enough to earn the money to buy one of here homes and yet, not smart enough to do due diligence.
that dude fake crying, seems like you. maybe next time when you do, bring a shovel to check the soil, and know the best place for you to put a home.
Those people need to contribute urine to Scottsdale before the city is allowed to give them water 💦 recycled urine is how Scottsdale continues to exist 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
“They bypassed a state law”
enough said.
Imagine building a new house not knowing if they would have water.
Low IQ people. This is the first assured test of intelligence to disallow a person to vote. If you built or bought a house in a desert community with no water…you should not be allowed to vote. You are too dumb!
If the government can send 80 billion to Ukraine 🇺🇦 that money 💰 could go to this community
Ukraine is sustainable. This dumb community is not. Besides… we’ll be better off if it collapses and leaves these people in ruins. After all, virtually 100% are Trump supporters. They do nothing but that which feeds their own selfish desires like their Mango Idol. They have been nothing but damage on our country. From voting for Trump to January 6 to the building of this dumb town…they obviously support bad things! If they go broke the country will be better off. Then they won’t be able to afford their racism, violence, resource waste, and other support for anti-American actions.
@Dark Pesco Trump 2024
@216 All Day In prison 2024
@Alfonso Torres Never
@216 All Day For being a clown to the world, booted out the white house, and being let back in? Nope. He’ll most likely going to prison.
Over 100 million people have been added to the population since I was a kid in the United States. I don’t understand why either political party thinks it’s OK to keep growing the population. These are the kind of problems that happened with overpopulation
No pity at all…
What kinda dumbasses move to the flipping desert and then complain the govt dont have water????
Everyone in the comments being so negative and lacking empathy. How can people move away? Nobody will buy their houses with that situation only sending people away.
The facts were available when they built this dumb community in the desert that has no water source. This current crisis has been a known COMING crisis for decades! Yet people still ignored this and did stupid things like this which only hastened and exasperated the crisis and suffering for all. I don’t feel sorry for entitled punks. Further… virtually every resident there is a Trump supporter. Neither he nor they do anything but serve their own selfish desires and collectively are destroying our country.
Builds a town to get away with taxes…. Developers build town showing no proof they can provide water… Expects neighboring city to ship water to them… gets mad neighboring city stops shipping then water for free 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
It’s all Biden’s fault, It’s all Hillary fault. It Trump was President there would be no drought. It’s all made up by the libs and fake media.
they need to stop Living in the middle of the desert. What do people expect. Or did no one listen to the Water people for the last 20 years. Just Ignore hard core facts and expect that we are special and the world doesnt matter.
Move back to Cali, there is an abundance of water here lol
AZ has too much corruption in the government. First they need to end all new construction. No new homes. Second they need to end all the unlimited water to farming. Farms should have limits on the amount of water allowed and meters. Right now most farms dont have to have water meters. Last they need a state wide plan on water distribution.
I am Canadian yet I hate the cold, but why do I remain and not move to a warm desert down south? I have 5 Great Lakes and understand habitable land
The problem is two fold: OVERPOPULATION AND UNRESTRICTED DEVELOPMENT. This translates into enormous water consumption. THIS WILL BE THE ISSUE OF THIS MILLENNIUM.
This is what happens when you live in the desert 🌵🏜️
What is the impact of illegal immigration on water supply?
Nothing, the fewd is between the residents of Scottsdale, and the wealthy community of Rio Verde Foothills who were stealing water from the residents of Scottsdale. Not sure why you bring illegal immigrants to this conversation, clearly they didn’t mention any of that but you.
If you have to truck in water on a permanent basis, your home is not sustainable on any level.
blame the developers of this neighborhood
😂😂😂 the most corrupt city in AZ. I have no empathy for them. On top of that, maybe stop allowing illegal aliens flood into the southwest.
The entire South West is running out of water. This has been a known crisis for several decades.
Dont live in the frickin desert
You live in the desert. Duuuuuh?
How are you going to move to the desert and still expect to have water? Entitlement is going to break this country.
I can’t believe how much privilege these people all feel they have.
How did the state or county allow the builder to skirt the 100 year water rule?
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.
It’s happening. We’ve been watching this slow moving train wreck for 20 years.
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.
None of these people believe in climate change or want solutions they just want everything handed to them until there’s nothing left
“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.”
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
You scene the profit Mohammed?
Republicans 😄😄😄😜
“ Bypassed the city” and started building 1000 new houses? The city saw what was going on and did nothing.
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.
Lmao. Let them starve.
Water could be extracted from desert air using heat from sunlight. In areas where water is scarce or polluted, atmospheric water generators are reliable sources of clean, safe water. For domestic applications, they can reduce or eliminate the need for bottled drinking water. An ultraporous compound can extract water molecules from dry desert air, store them as tiny “icicles” and then release them as clean drinking water. A new study has shown this novel humidity sponge’s developers how it works in detail, taking it a step closer to practical applications. However, atmospheric water generators don’t work everywhere.
The problem with Atmospheric Water Generators is that they use a tremendous amount of power. However, in Arizona, if you pay enough money, you could get 12 KW of solar panels. What I’m wondering is how much noise do they make. I saw a video where someone put a small system on their roof in San Diego County but the noise, especially at night was tremendous. Do you know anything about the noise? Are some more silent?
When you elected those communists that’s what you get time to impeach them and put some real Americans in office
They need to sue the Contractors who built the houses.
MEN- BE A HERO! PLEASE CLEAN THE OCEAN. 🌊
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.
_“Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.”_
*― Bill Mollison* (Founder of Permaculture)
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!
“Small but fast growing area…..”
Yea, about that…….
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.
Unchecked growth. A refusal to form their own water district to avoid expanding government. Zero sympathy. Pack up and leave. You chose wrong.
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..
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
cry a river & it will fill back up
And so it begins…..
Stop moving to Arizona! Stop populating places where we shouldn’t be. Why isn’t our government helping figure it out?
Let’s keep making missions to the moon and Mars. We got it all figured out here on this great planet
Prepare for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ!!!
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
🙏🏾✝️🛐💙🙌🏾🙌🏻… Things we take for granted… I’m praying the State of Arizona 🥰🙏🏾🚰🙌🏾🙌🏻
No one feels bad for any of these people. WTF do you expect when you move to the desert
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I buy homes….even without water.
Look at the satellite view of this neighborhood , lots of golf courses and swimming pools, WTF?? You were warned numerous times over the years about the water issue, yet they keep building and people keep moving to the neighborhood . They have no one to blame but themselves, and don’t blame the builders, you’re an adult ,can’t rely on others to tell you what to do. Use your brain and common sense and do a little research, its a no brainer
I remember back in the 60’s when this turning the deserts green trend stated to gain traction because the land was dirt cheap that people and especially the science community of the day tried so hard to warn the government and the communities that this was NOT a sustainable plan, that sooner or later they would exhaust the water tables clean across the western side of the Mississippi! and lo and behold it has happened! This lack of water starts from the Mississippi river and goes clean across the country to the ocean in California and Washington! They have drained the two largest Aquifers on the eastern side of the Rockies to the point sink holes are occurring in places they have never occurred before! This is also suspected to be the cause for the uptick in earthquakes. There is NOTHING that can be done now, unless they IMMEDIATELY put a ban on ALL water consumption west of the Mississippi it will eventually turn the western half of the USA into one giant desert!
Ridiculous! They needed to learn to be self sufficient when they moved there. Ask them why did they choose to move to the Rio verde foothills an unincorporated town. All I see is a bunch of rich people whining because they don’t want to adjust their luxurious life for the area they chose to move too.
Why are they suing a neighboring city? Shouldn’t they sue the developers that skirted the law for financial gain? They dont have to supply a whole other city with water. Their water supply was only going to last them a 100 years, now they have to take on another cities issues because people can’t follow the rules? Insane.
Republicans run city.
Coca Cola helps themselves to the surplus water, does anyone realize this?
so dumb..
all they have to do it haul water and buy it themselves
Oh but the rich Scottsdale will use all the water they please.
Those people should just enjoy their gas stoves, cuz climate change & science isn’t real right? Ask those corporations for a water deal.
Aren’t these the bootstraps people? They should have been more responsible with their previous water amount
This is absolutely horrid & despicable for these residents & life long natives
It. Is. The. Freaking. DESSERT. For. A. Reason.
Dumbasses…..Went on Zillow, these morons are trying to sell their homes for over a million dollars built on a multi million dollar golf course with NO water.
Way to go, money obviously doesn’t to buy intelligence.
What about the huge hughes development proposed for buckeye , 300,000 people when all said and done
🙄👆 Water capturing rain or whatever methods are viable
We trained are thinking ti Extractionism of water
But never how to fully
🙄👆 Cut waste with new and better methods
But how much forecast of rain is expected in ant given area
👆🙄 In whatever state finds a good method
Water capturing thing’s
The land only needs so much
🙄👆 Well…
They say
Louisiana, like neighboring Mississippi, is located in the Deep South of the country and has a humid subtropical climate. It receives roughly 60 inches of precipitation each year, making it the second wettest state in the country
🙄👆 Watering capturing systems and glass recycling bottles or something
Or whatever the patterns of weather may change
👆🙄 Whatever state or area in the USA
Can provide ar least drinking water
As far as washing or whatever…
But water sustainability
🙄👆 Or find ways to create a surplus again
How ot gets shipped to different areas is another thing
👆🙄 But water capturing systems
Maybe lights-out to reduce energy consumption
🙄👆 I don’t even have a computer to try to design it
If anything to say the least
An attempt to learn
👆🙄 But its an idea so people ar least have drinking water
People need to start thing about things that matter
Its jist an idea
🙄👆 I just figured an area with lots of rain some of it can be captured as a reserved and perhaps a surplus and supply
With ASI
Cybernetic 👆🙄 or whatever
It means laws have to make it possible
To investigate the possibility
What is the least way of externalities
🙄👆 How much does that preticular area need we get the access or something
These greedy desert developers are vultures and politicians or state commissions shouldn’t be approving these developments. Stop farming! Stop building!! Too many people. Ridiculous!
Scottsdale needs to do the right thing and cut Rio Verde off from water.
You know, EVERY time it snows (in the Winter, when it’s SUPPOSED to), there are these lines around the grocery store with people buying up Y2K supplies of milk, bread, eggs, lunchmeat, etc. EVERY SINGLE TIME … same people are enraged at the price of a bag of rock salt or the price of a shovel, as if they haven’t had their entire lives to get this in their heads. Are we REALLY surprised at this? I mean …. It’s the United States of America … if Missouri can be called “The Show Me State” then the US can certainly be called the “Give Me” Country. Everything that doesn’t come on a silver platter, no matter how unreasonable, is cause to protest and label people as inhumane and shake fists at a government that is loaded with people who will NEVER want for anything …..except your vote. And that is the ONLY reason why they will eventually find a way to get more water to these people. Especially once it gets adjudicated in the Supreme Court of “The View”
Without water there can be no population.
It’s like moving to Tornado alley and complaining about Tornados, or Hurrican alley and complaining about high winds and water damage. If you live in the desert, water is an issue.
They were told a year ago that this would happen and they didn’t sell their homes and move out???? IDIOTS!!!
I don’t blame the people who bought the houses, I blame the developers who misled them.
Residents should research water capture screen systems that stores moisture from morning/evening dew. Every house should have the system installed, just like solar systems.
And maybe if the people actually grew a spine and we all told thus government they have to go we would all be just fine.
Why not just hire a private company to truck water in? Problem solved.
That dude crying…😂 people are stupid.
We’re killing the planet, water wars are coming.
These idiots in Rio Verde remind me of the people my uncle told me about in Washington state. They were told before Mt. St. Helens erupted that they need to evacuate, but it didn’t have a caldera, so they didn’t believe it was a volcano and stayed…and died…