“Again, where I am in AZ we’re told we have 100 years of water, even factoring in growth.”
Where are you?
Here is a fact: 70% of the water in Arizona goes to agriculture. We have more than enough water for all the cities. What we DON’T have is enough water to EXPORT IT!
That “100 years of water” thing is a joke. It sort of exists where the CITIES are because cities don’t use much water. But places like Willcox or the areas in western Arizona? They are draining the ground water. These foreign farms do NOT drill 2,000 foot wells because there is tons of water there.
I don’t expect Tucson or outlying areas like where I live to go dry in the next 100 years. No agriculture here. But I spent a bunch of time looking for a home in SE Arizona and a big part of the problem was finding a place where the water table isn’t dropping. We nearly bought a house in one place. Glad we didn’t. The following year, they expanded a nut orchard by thousands of acres. Those nut farms use a LOT of water and the 400’ well the house had would be threatened.
This is insanity. The CITIES probably won’t have problems with water. Small towns? Rural areas? Whole different problem.
Smaller town, not a major city, well under 100k, with little or no agriculture I’m aware of and it’s high elevation. Not reliant on the river. 100 year supply, that’s what was said. Are they lying? Who knows, I wouldn’t be surprised.