Phoenix Is Going Dry And Something SHOCKING Has Happened 

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They need to kick out these foreign companies out of the state draining our water supply.

Maybe they shouldn't have let the Saudis grow alfalfa on the Phoenix's backup water system, using that water!!😮😊

Farm fields turn into houses, Asfault, concrete and tile roofs are making it hotter than ever in Phx.

Great video. Omitted some of the big water wasting projects, which are commercial Server Farms which use anywhere from 1 million to 3 million gallons of water per day to cool them. That is about 3000 to 13,000 homes worth. There are now 60 datacenters in Phoenix, using the same amount of water as several hundred thousand homes. So, it is not like the city is all about smart planning...

If we're so good with water conservation why aren't they forcing agriculture to use drip irrigation and enclosing the canals? A large percent of our water is lost through evaporation.

The first time I was in Phoenix was 1956 . We drove in from the east through Apache Junction to Phoenix about 30 miles . There were hardly any houses or buildings , nothing but orchard after orchard as far as one could see . It was so humid the air felt thick and the smells were heavenly . Date palms , grape fruit ,lemons ,oranges ,and more . There were thousands and thousands of fruit trees. It is all gone . Just a few trees left from old orchards . When I came back in 1974 it was asphalt , concrete ,and lots of building . Sucking up water like no tomorrow . It was not humid any more . I would bet the water usage more than tripled . Now that is some good planing . NOT !

Cattle Copper Cotten Climate Citrus All being removed! Az was an agricultural icon.

I was in Texas. It was dry as a bone. I turned down a street and all I could see were condos being built. Their aquifer was already down 75% in that area, but they keep building.

I lived in Dewey Arizona (near Prescott Valley). Many of the rural properties had wells. Many of the wells were going dry at least part of the year. New wells kept getting deeper to get water. Great area, but getting tougher to get water.

No more golf courses, unless on gray water, over a million gallons a day on grass watering. Turn the rest off of potable to reclaimed.

Replacing farms with endless tract housing is not a good idea. Outsourcing our food will result in disaster.

Once air conditioning became available…..millions of people moved in.

I'm a Colorado 5th generation native and live on acreage in the woods on a well. I like to come down and do some camping in the spring to take in some spring baseball games around Scottsdale. It somewhat blows me away by how much water usage I see around the PHX area. When Denver is on "water rationing' and limit lawn/garden days, I ask folks in AZ about "water rationing" and get- "what's that"? I usually say, that's what they make Coloradan's do to save water for AZ, NV and CA to water lawns.

Grew up in Az. back in the 80's. Left for 40 yrs to Wisconsin and recently returned 4 yrs ago. I don't remember it being 100 degs.+ overnight. Every night. Loved growing up here as a kid. Not so much as an adult. Thinkin' bout a move again already.

What collapse looks like. Like bankruptcy, it happens slowly, and then quickly

You earned a sub with this one! By far the best video I've seen about Phoenix's water. Well done!

Here in California we were bone dry and now we are drowning. Our reservoirs are at 100% we have actually needed to release some water. We need a better system to sell water at a reasonable price with states that need it. If we can transport oil we can do it with water. Golf courses need to go!

That tells you how much housing has replaced agriculture and made agriculture very cost prohibitive. Taxes on farmland alone has replaced huge areas to sell out to housing. That’s not good! That’s LESS foods and commodities! This is something you should be concerned about as the pandemic demonstrated how quickly supply chains can break down internationally and even nationally. If you like eating, wearing clothes, and getting things from the store, you DONT want agriculture to disappear. Arizonas leaders have sold out our future food security to bringing more people and despite what you try to say is safe, water will become more expensive and probably restricted over time. But hey, why worry about tomorrow?

We left Phoenix 2023 this was one of the big factors why. When the 100 year old cactus 🌵 start dying there's something wrong.

And now there are semiconductor manufacturers are coming to the Phoenix area, the Valley of the Sun or simply the Valley. They use massive amounts of water, and they will get the lions share of it, while the residents will have to ration their water.

I’m in Mesa, AZ. Big farms waste water. Small food forests not only save water but actually harvest rainwater, replenish groundwater, and via the biotic pump attract rain. I watered my food forest twice last November and not at all in December, January, and February. In March, I had to fertilize (using self-made, no-cost organic JADAM liquid fertilizer and microbial solution. So yes, I used water but did not deep water at all. That’s what permaculture does.

new home permitting halt is to save water for the huge semiconductor plants being built

Politicians allowed Rio Verde, and outlying community to access our ground waters even though they were not permitted to do so. Someone got to pay off.

Dams are one of the biggest ecological disasters of mankind. It sounds nice to want to "Reserve" the water, but it's not. Taking away the streams and creeks that run through the mountains and valleys ruins the ecology.Rivers put water where it is needed to sustain all life forms in these areas. When you dam the water the whole food chain breaks down and you are left with a wasteland. Deserts are not wastelands. Deserts thrive with life if the water is there. The groundwater is getting tapped out too. It can not be replaced. We should have had water conservation everywhere, years ago. Our grandchildren deserve clean drinking water, and a wilderness that still has fish and animals in it.

water always flows to the money. It they raised Phoenix's water rates to what Tucson has with their tiered pricing and 4 and 5Xs Phoenix bills, there will be no shortage. Farmers pay almost nothing for the water compared to residents. Trust me, the farmers will go first!

Lived in Scottsdale 45 years. New comers from water rich areas need to go through a class teaching them how to conserve cause you ain’t in Illinois any more. Same goes for electricity use. Add traffic laws class too

Ag water use. Yes, we need food, but do we need to be growing water hungry crops like cotton and alfalfa in the desert?

AZ officials knew that there wasn't enough groundwater to support the next 20 years of projected growth in Phoenix. That was in the early 80's and was not public information, it was overheard.

IMO, AZ should bow to science and begin planning now for the natural water shortage due to occur in another 20-22 years, when we have the next triple La Nina.

Folks have no idea how much taxpayers subsidize farming. 90% of those farming welfare checks going to massive corporate farms. Strong lobby team doing its job very well.

I like the Phoenix/Scottsdale area and have visited it many times because my folks retired there. But I wouldn't want to live there because it is too dry, during the Summer it can be too hot, there are barely any trees, and the undeveloped property is a dangerous no-mans land. Actually, it wasn't the water than allowed Phoenix to become so populated, that was always there. It was the invention of air conditioning that allowed non-rugged people and the elderly to survive there. One time before I visited it had rained heavily and everything went into bloom. It was unbelievably beautiful.

Just what we need, more people, less food production. 🤪

Outstanding video and production quality. Thank you for the informative and entertaining video explaining Phoenix water.

The Salt River is hardly "majestic" by the time it hits the metro area! It stinks! I know as I lived around it for 4 decades!

My wife and I moved to Phoenix Arizona from Pennsylvania 2 weeks ago. We’ve gotten a lot of rain here in Arizona in the past 2 weeks it seems like. I subbed because I enjoyed this video and learning things about the area my wife and I just moved to.

Don't forget about Valley Fever.

Now do one on the excessive (and increasing!) heat! The HEAT is the big problem that is increasing as we aren’t doing nearly enough to reduce our GHG emissions. If the power goes out- even for a short time, many people could die in a matter of days in a severe heatwave. This should concern all Phoenix residents. 😖

Water desalination plants are needed before it’s a bigger problem. Ship the seawater through a pipeline and desal it in Arizona. A lot of ocean to use

This is very helpful info. Thank you!

The problem with more poeple and less crops is that there already is just 1.5 % of poeple growing the food for the other % .

The water in Phoneix tastes the worst I've ever experienced.

Payson to coolidge, middle east uses it for Alfalfa's AGI. And some sent to the middle east!

I love ❤️ Phoenix! Dont let the water in Tempe fool you, its dammed. We could stand to let some of these golf courses go however.

Food grows where water flows.

We live in the Colorado mountains and have well water and a septic tank so have different worries about water. Last week we got four feet of snow and were trapped until I could blow it away. Imagine opening your door to snow up to your belly button that you had to shovel away to get to the snowblower.

I lived in Phx for 40 years last one all year sunshine every day. Got tired of sunshine

Over building in the last 20 years has created a lot of problem. But Arizona does have its own water sources.

As a former Phoenician I thought your presentation was very well done and informative.

Brian, We have lived in the Phoenix area since 1984 and have always believed that we are reckless in our water consumption. After watching your video, I am reassured that the problem has been exaggerated largely due to a lack of understanding and misinformation (so typical these days). Learning how to continue to improve water conservation in our daily lives and adjust to an ever changing climate, is how we will ensure a future for Arizona for generations to come. Thanks for helping us understand the reality of our area.

Great job with this video, thanks!

Phoenix is the next Los Angeles . It's getting worse here every year . And people keep moving here ..

The video was well done. However this state has been devastated. It was never meant for 7-10 million. The degradation is heartbreaking. Many of the mountain parks have been eliminated for the pleasure of the filthy rich. Stacking and packing new residents has destroyed our roadways. Congestion is beyond bad. So much is gone. My kids and grandchildren are 5th and 6th generation Arizonans and my not be able to remain. Additionally the city does not COOL off any longer. The Valley is a heatsink. It used to cool at least 15 degrees an hour after sundown. No more to corrupt politicians who take money from developers and other monied interest to get approval for their hideous projects. I also have access to well reports and many wells that were once a couple hundred feet are now 15oo-1700 feet. Crazy considering the old timers could hand dig wells at one time. Wait until all cooling ceases and the infrastructure fails. Keep

Last time I was in Scottsdale they had all these big fountains at the hotel and they told me that they didn't change the seats everyday because of water.

growing crops, having swimming pools, and an abundance of golf courses......foreign companies or the saudis growing alfalfa is just part of it

There is much stupidity in Pennsylvania...but..we have water. Lots of it. Western Pennsylvania has the Youghiogheny, the Monongahela, the Allegheny and the Ohio Rivers. We have lots of farmland, and an abundance of coal and natural gas under ground. Serioysly, I hope you can figure out your water situation in AZ.

There are crops being grown in Az that shouldn’t be there.

Hit the thumbs as soon as RS appeared. Great video Brian!

Lv your video.♥️💯I just subscribed.Who would want to live in hella hot area. Hot here in Nevada at times.But Arizona is a NO,NO.

The new TSMC chip factory’s north of Phoenix require lots of water. How much?

Excellent A+ video! Thank you for your hard work in doing the research and educating us all.

The ground water level in central CA has fallen beyond repair. The further it falls, the more the farmers drill. They have already removed tens of thousands of acres of almonds. Check the prices of almonds and pistachios, thats the result. CA hasn't build a new reservoir in 40 years. Agriculture has been the largest industry in California, but G. Newsom is depleting it with his radical policies, which is why we have a 73 billion dollar deficit. All of the south west will need to stop watering lawns and filling swimming pools in the next drought, and there will be more inflation in food prices.

What about the big chip factory? How is that not gonna affect us? I don't get it.

AZ isn't going dry.

Nevada did it in the desert AZ is just unimaginative

Top notch video. I wish this guy did ALL the videos on RU-vid.

The copper mines use humongous amounts of water - they are supposed to be backed up but I doubt that is true. I lived in Green Valley for 11 years and they were starting another mine in the Santa Rita’s before we left more water needed

Parts of Arizona forests have been for run off to the Phoenix area. It is now known that trees help water flow and this is part of Phoenix's problem.

Excellent little documentary. Engaging, fun, brilliant editing and better than any news I see on the local 3.

Excellent video. Short, perfectly edited and very informative. This guy is really talented.

If you look at the massive amount of construction around Phoenix right now it’s a pretty good indicator of what the long range planners think. Right now the largest single construction project on planet earth is going on north of Phoenix. It’s a semiconductor plant that is likely to replace or back up the one in Taiwan when China takes it over.

I can tell the water pressure in my townhouse is, gradually, being throttled back. 6 years ago, when I first moved in, I could fill my tub in a few minutes. It now takes about 15 minutes. I’m wondering how long before it’s just a trickle.

the teleport box lolol. dude this video is killin. great job

What is important to water flow is the amount of revenue power generation creates.Also there are new dams on the Colorado River basin that reduce the flow to Powell and Mead that will never get to the dams to create power.

*_Political climate change theatrics aside..._* Phoenix AZ is actually one of the rare instances where mankind has had a clear effect on the climate. Phoenix used to be very dry, but after so many people moved there and had swimming pools and golf courses installed, the massive exposure of water evaporation raised humidity drastically. And as we all know, high heat + high humidity is not a fun combination. As far as water conservation goes, get rid of the pools and golf courses and everyone should be okay.

0mg this was a great video. Bravo!

If you can't get by without air conditioning (or high heating needs) to survive, you're in a dangerous climate. I'm on the Cumberland Plateau at 2000 ft elevation in Tennessee and if the electric goes out, it's not a disaster. Don't move somewhere overloaded with people, move where there's space and green around you.

Phoenix has many many stored water reserves and largest share of Colorado River rightfully flowing through her. Much planning, CAP by State of AZ and well run city of Phoenix. Not drying up.

The truth is that there is way too many people on this planet in the first place, and nobody is talking about it. This needs to be addresses first.

Good video! Great research!

Ya drive the food cost so high people move out great idea

The long-term prospects for water in the southwestern United States are not good. As the Colorado River's flow decreases, the rest of the state's residents will want a greater share of Phoneix's water. One solution is for the state to increase groundwater storage with runoff. Farmers will need to conserve water. Residences will need to cut back on use and recycle water, using gray water for black water systems and the garden.

Perhaps if we weren't bringing in millions of extra people.

Yes, but all that other water you are talking about belongs to someone else, not Phoenix.

Great video! We should still get rid of all the golf courses and backfill that land with affordable housing. LOL ⛳

Phoenix, despite almost doubling in population since 2000, used the same amount of water in 2020. I doubt you could say that about any other major city in the U.S.

Goundwater Deep Aquifers are no replacable, because it would take thousands of years for surface water to percolate slowly down the thousands of feet to the aquifers.

Very informative.

Arizonians: Build and buy homes in the desert and dont know why there are water supply issues 🤷 Thats like buying a home near the Mississippi river and dont know why there are floods

That is way I live in a state that has access to 4 of the 5 " Great Lakes " !

Shower once a week, flush twice per day. No crops that are exported, not all farmers actually grow food you can eat for dinner. Never water grass, one pool per neighborhood. The waste is off the charts everywhere.

When talking about water conservation in Arizona, you shouldn't forget Brad Lancaster

Municipals users also pay a lot more for their water to local government than the taxes collected from the farming.

Interesting, farming from Phoenix to El Central California, all desert, has been suppling the US for over 100 years with just about every large volume produce and alfalfa. The desert people, the hot dry desert with all the attention on global warming continues producing. The ability to do this is amazing to say the least.

Don’t worry just bring in the money and build more water features

Great job on that video!!💯Entertaining and informative 👍

Humans do not lack the technology to solve water problems, but they currently lack the political/organizational will to deploy the technologies that they already have. Arizona's relative shortage of water can be resolved by one or a mix of solutions involving several different possible methods, including: 1. Build one or more sea water desalination plants (and associated solar panel infrastructure to keep it powered) in Los Angeles California. Currently, Los Angeles uses Colorado river water, delivered to it via the Colorado River Aqueduct (CRA - which is a long canal system that goes from a dam in Parker Arizona, and delivers the water to Los Angeles). Building enough sea water desalination equipment in Los Angeles, would negate the need for California to withdraw most of its water allotment from the Colorado River, thus freeing up the water for use in land locked states like Arizona and Nevada, which do not have direct access to sea water for desalination purposes. One argument against sea water desalination is that it takes "massive amounts of energy", but desert places like Arizona and Southern California are very energy rich places, given the abundant availability of solar power in such places. The amount of electricity needed to power sea water desalination and sea water pumping is readily achievable with relatively modest increases in electricity generating infrastructure, such as by way of solar panels. Additionally, desalinated water is storable, such as by intentionally pumping it into existing freshwater lakes (that later gets withdrawn for use as needed). Sea water desalination by reverse osmosis does not have to be done 24/7, it can be ramped up during sunny hours of the day, and then shut down at night, during cloudy days, or during periods of otherwise excessive electric grid demand (such as during heat waves in summer). 2. Replace the cotton farms in Arizona, with industrial polyester or other synthetic fiber manufacturing plants instead. Many people currently prefer cotton clothes over polyester clothes, as cotton tends to be softer/fluffier and better at absorbing moisture, compared to synthetic fibers. It is however likely feasible to fix this. Surface treatments should theoretically be feasible on synthetic fibers to make them more hydroscopic, and other treatments should be feasible to microscopically cut the fibers to make them branch out more, thus making the resulting fabric fluffier and softer. If such improvements in synthetic fiber manufacturing practices were implemented, it would make the synthetic fibers better competition against cotton, since such fabrics have the potential to become just as fluffy and soft as cotton, while having likely superior durability and color retention capability, compared to cotton. 3. Replace corn and other animal feed producing farms in Arizona with industrial manufacturing facilities that convert natural gas into animal feed, via methanotrophic organisms (such as Methylococcus Capsulatus). Pilot plants for doing this conversion have been built and demonstrated successfully in the past. Such a method of manufacturing animal feed has the potential to greatly reduce land use and water use, to nearly zero, as compared to conventional agriculture. 4. Implement intentional rain collection systems. Although the deserts of Arizona do not get all that much rain compared to other places, it is possible to augment municipal water supplies by a non-negligible amount, simply by installing rain gutters on every house, building, and solar panel farm, and then adding the plumbing necessary to capture and store the collected water. Rain gutters and water storage tanks are not all that expensive, relative to the importance and value of water in a desert. Rain gutters and water storage tanks are often cheaper than professionally drilled deep water wells in the desert, especially at today's prices, where well drilling prices and government permitting has become unreasonable and/or simply illegal in some places. Rainwater collection is not a guaranteed reliable source of water (since droughts in a desert absolutely do happen), but when it is used primarily to augment other water sources (like existing groundwater wells and river water sources), it can make a meaningful difference, particularly for municipal and industrial water users.

OK now the real story. I read a book on shotgunning written about 1900 in the phx area. The book was being thrown away by the library. Before all these dams and man made lakes phx was cooler lush farm and hunting fowl land. Man made the desert as we know it. Now I did live in az 22 yrs mostly in the valley. So I know what a hell hole it can be.

Fascinating. You still need that snowpack around Flag, though.

The valley of the sun uses less water than it did in the early 1950's. Sounds ludicrous but the fact is the housing developments use less water than the farms they replaced.