Nothing like a little dire news for a Monday...

I grew up at the southern end of Lake Powell and it's always been a resource to be abused -- insofar as possible, as remote as it is.

These days we live about three hours south of there and water is still one of our greatest issues.

Our property has one of five legal wells within the city limits although we don't use it. I doubt the well is deep enough to reach the aquifer these days anyway. We'd have to redrill.

The AZ state Constitution has a clause prohibiting taking water from one aquifer area to service another. But that didn't stop them from wangling an exception for the big 'water ranches' west of Phoenix. Ugh.

Now they're trying to build a pipeline from the Big Chino aquifer north of us to support all the new homes in our area. Ugh again.

Well... As indicated by the linked story, it looks like all the game playing is catching up to them(us?). We're about to enter a difficult time -- a narrow passage. Here we go.