A community near Scottsdale, Arizona, is running out of water. “It’s going to turn into the Hunger Games,” one resident said. “Like, a scrambling-for-your-toilet-water-every-month kind of thing.”
The best gossip you’re likely to hear in Rio Verde Foothills, Arizona, is about water. Last month, when a few residents stopped by Karen Nabity’s sprawling, high-ceilinged home, the talk quickly turned to wells.
The Southwest’s water issues are at a point of crisis. “What has been a slow-motion train wreck for twenty years is accelerating, and the moment of reckoning is near,” John Entsminger, the general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, told Congress earlier this year. Arizona is one of seven states that, along with parts of Mexico, draw water from the, which accounts for about a third of the state’s supply.
In 2018, Phoenix, concerned about its own supply, stopped selling water to haulers who serviced New River, an unincorporated community north of the city. Nabity grew worried that Scottsdale might make a similar decision and cut off supply to Rio Verde Foothills. If that happened, the water haulers could look for other sources, but trucking water in from farther away would cost significantly more.
Some residents came to believe that the best long-term solution for the hauled-water homes was to form a Domestic Water Improvement District, or, as a political subdivision, would be able to buy land to extract water from one of the few aquifers in Arizona that still had excess capacity for sale. Acould also get funding, or apply for grants, to eventually build water-treatment infrastructure for the area.
“All this used to be pretty much desert,” Riddle said, as we drove past a half-dozen slate-gray houses that now block his fifty-mile view. They sat on lots that were scraped down to bare dirt. Riddle told me that he complained to the county—“They can’t have six, they can only have five!”—but without success; the houses’ ownership was concealed in a tangle of L.L.C.s. “Not only are they building as dense as they can build, they’re scraping everything to the ground,” he said.
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