Fair enough. Even with the additional sources of water, it’s better to design civilization in a way that incorporates natural cycles. The Intel fab facility do

Fair enough. Even with the additional sources of water, it’s better to design civilization in a way that incorporates natural cycles. The Intel fab facility does a lot to reclaim water, ultimately pumping used water back into the aquifer. New construction, such as the light rail expansion has purposely-designed swales to also help with that. If anything, it’s because the ground water has been banked for years that it is mitigating the water restriction in effect in AZ last year. On the other hand, we have so much precipitation this past winter, that the dams along the Salt River are having daily releases now. If you’re living in Phoenix right now, you might notice the elevated humidity for this time of the year; we might have a monsoon season starting weeks early here.