When I lived in Glendale, AZ in the early 70's, the housing boom had just begun. The graduate school that I went to regularly kept its lawns green by flooding them with inches of water, and we never even considered water conservation. There were miles and miles of open land between Glendale and city limits of Phoenix, as there were between Glendale and Scottsdale. Now the entire Valley of the Sun is one big housing development. I am frankly surprised that supplying these bedroom communities with enough water has not caused an outright ban on new housing development and growth into the outer suburbs like Rio Verde long before today.

When I lived in Glendale, AZ in the early 70's, the housing boom had just begun. The graduate school that I went to regularly kept its lawns green by flooding them with inches of water, and we never even considered water conservation. There were miles and miles of open land between Glendale and city limits of Phoenix, as there were between Glendale and Scottsdale. Now the entire Valley of the Sun is one big housing development. I am frankly surprised that supplying these bedroom communities with enough water has not caused an outright ban on new housing development and growth into the outer suburbs like Rio Verde long before today.

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