"Anyone ANYwhere who is not concerned about good water usage is not being a good steward of our planet."

Completely agree with Gretchen.

While not close to Arizona, Chile is South America's California's weather without any of their massive problems.

My favorite S.A. country

Vaga

There are those of us who try to be aware every time we open a tap, and there are the others who suck up what we try to save. Like who was it, Tom Selleck, caught recently hiring a water truck filled at a hydrant to water his "ranch"? Nothing ever changes, the entitled and the oblivious are always among us.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health...lake_mead.html

"Last week, Lake Mead, which sits on the border of Nevada and Arizona, set a new record low—the first time since the construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s that the lake’s surface has dipped below 1,080 feet above sea level. The West’s drought is so bad that official plans for water rationing have now begun—with Arizona’s farmers first on the chopping block. Yes, despite the drought’s epicenter in California, it’s Arizona that will bear the brunt of the West’s epic dry spell.

The huge Lake Mead—which used to be the nation’s largest reservoir—serves as the main water storage facility on the Colorado River. Amid one of the worst droughts in millennia, record lows at Lake Mead are becoming an annual event—last year’s low was 7 feet higher than this year’s expected June nadir, 1,073 feet.

If, come Jan. 1, Lake Mead’s level is below 1,075 feet, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the river, will declare an official shortage for the first time ever—setting into motion a series of already agreed-upon mandatory cuts in water outlays, primarily to Arizona. (Nevada and Mexico will also receive smaller cuts.)

According to Robert Glennon, a water policy expert at the University of Arizona, the current situation was inevitable. “It’s really no surprise that this day was coming, for the simple reason that the Colorado River is overallocated,” Glennon told me over the phone last week. Glennon explained that the original Colorado River compact of 1922, which governs how seven states and Mexico use the river, was negotiated during “the wettest 10-year period in the last 1,000 years.” That law portioned out about 25 percent more water than regularly flows, so even in “normal” years, big reservoirs like Lake Mead are in a long-term decline. “We’ve been saved from the disaster because Arizona and these other states were not using all their water,” Glennon said.

They are now. Since around 2000, Arizona has been withdrawing its full allotment from the Colorado River, and it’s impossible to overstate how important the Colorado has become to the state. About 40 percent of Arizona’s water comes from the Colorado, and state officials partially attribute a nearly 20-fold increase in the state’s economy over the last 50 years to increased access to the river."

Dang I have some comments to read thru LOL.
Ok so I own a home in NC so going somewhere for any amount of time would be a problem.
And low humidity in NC? Have you been here?
I love living on the east coast. I love green. I just think I would hate the stones in the yard.
I was hoping there was a more green area.
Now, letmme read.

Ok whew. Water shortages. No I honestly didn't know it was a huge problem.
California? No worries there...I would never move there lol. No Offense. It's just too expensive like NJ where I origianlly moved from.

I know if I did move to the hot dry desert regions I would not have a garden like I imagine a garden. For me its sort of a deal breaker.

I find if I use my imagination and think about a thing for a while, if I want it, it becomes possible to me, even if it didn't begin that way. If you've given up before even looking into all the possibilities of gardens in a dry climate, maybe it isn't something you really want, or want enough. Just a thought. Imagination is a wonderful thing and a real gardener can garden anywhere.

Since you are unaware of the water shortage, may need to tell you that NC is in a drought situation and we have water rationing at the moment.
Two threads, saying the same thing.

<<Anyone ANYwhere who is not concerned about good water usage is not being a good steward of our planet.>>

I guess you have not heard of the water cycle?

The water does not vanish, it just ends up somewhere else.

Mark

2Nd grade science gone awry.

OMG
Next thing we know he'll be running for Congress. LOL

THAT is truly stunningly "something we can't say about someone on a thread".

Have you looked at Sedona?