Bill Gates building Smart City in Arizona

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NEWS ARTICLE:
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/11/12/bill-gates-firm-buys-arizona-land-for-80-million-to-create-smart-city.html

[Zippyjuan]

Will he be able to get water for his city? https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2017/05/18/reckoning-ahead-for-arizona-as-water-imbalance-grows-on-colorado-river


IN ARIZONA, WATER scarcity is like the background hum of conversation in a popular restaurant: unrelenting. But even in this desert state, the ever-present strain on water supplies could soon be felt more acutely.

As soon as 2019, the water level in Lake Mead on the Colorado River could drop below an elevation of 1,075 feet. That will trigger mandatory cutbacks in water diversions from the reservoir under an agreement negotiated between the federal government and three lower-basin states that rely on the river: Arizona, California and Nevada.

A drought in the watershed now stretching 17 years long is to blame, along with overallocation of the river’s water supplies. Every year, the lower basin states have rights to extract 1.2 million acre-feet more water than the river actually produces. This is known as a “structural deficit” in the river’s water supplies. It is this combination of factors that enlarges the ugly “bathtub ring” around Lake Mead as water levels shrink year after year.


Arizona’s leaders long ago embraced the realities of life in the desert and adopted a wide range of water conservation measures. Its 1980 state groundwater management law, for instance, ties housing development to water availability and is recognized as a national model.


Arizona’s celebrated 1980 groundwater law, among other things, requires developers of new housing subdivisions to demonstrate they have enough water to serve those new homes for 100 years. But there’s a loophole in the law that means, ironically, some of these homes may also be among the first to see cuts in water supply, said John Fleck, author of “Water is for Fighting Over,” a book published last year about the Colorado River conflict.

[donnay]

I was hoping he would find a place on Mars to start his utopia.

[spudea]

I've got $20 that says this project is abandoned in 5 years, or he can bring in the experts from China and Saudi Arabia who know how to build ghost cities.

[Raginfridus]

Will he be able to get water for his city? https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2017/05/18/reckoning-ahead-for-arizona-as-water-imbalance-grows-on-colorado-riverIts the talk in west KS too, from what my cowpoke friends remind me. They say the Great American Desert is returning, and farming land that really has no business being used for that is a big part of it. Also they draw water from that same underground aquifer in the SW. Supposedly its been low, because cities and farmers draw from it. That's just what I've been told.

[XNavyNuke]

The aristocrats need their shiny, self-sufficient city in the desert wasteland. I wish them speedy construction.

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