How Tucson Fought an Amazon Data Center and Won - More Perfect Union

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3. Don't you know it!

Rio Verde Foothills just went through over a year of hell in not knowing if they would have water or not. Some homes have wells that are good while others a short distance away are drying up. People have paid thousands of dollars to have wells dug only to wind up with mud. They don't get the money back. Many have hauled water but Scottsdale decided they would not be able to get the water from them any longer. The literal tap was turned off leaving many residents in a very bad predicament. Water is literally life. Without water and no way to even have it hauled their homes would be worthless. Finally after a lot of legal hurdles they temporarily got the water turned back on and infrastructure on an EPCOR standpipe is in the works but they have a Dec 31 deadline and people are worried that deadline might not be met.