I always thought it strange that Phoenix has 19 golf courses. I had to go to one of them once as part of a business trip before moving here, and I remember seeing a small patch of dry dead grass that was missed by the sprinklers, thinking, THAT’s what this should be . . . the rest of this doesn’t belong here!
Arizona also has a lot of agriculture. Lettuce and cotton like lots of water.
Lettuce is water
“Phoenix has 19 golf courses.”
How many are in Palm Springs CA?
Yet Ca, for example, will NOT build more water retention infrastructure.
The same for AZ. Monsoon rains hit and where does that water go?
Over 90% of that water evaporates.
Then add to that, the mismanagement of forests.
Transform the desert into green and lush areas like this African did. But hey! The government! The government, we need government money you know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfblLpKKM1Q
I think it’s more than 19 golf courses, or do they just mean in the city of Phoenix and not counting Glendale, Peoria etc?
The biggest consumer of water in Arizona is agriculture, NOT golf courses and residential lawns. It has always been this way.
Palm Springs area has many more golf courses in the middle of the desert.
“Over 130” in the valley according to one web site.