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A new housing development outside Phoenix is looking towards European cities for inspiration and shutting out the cars. So far residents love it - The Guardian

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not the heat, it's the lack of water.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe but the amount of water needed to sustain human life is quite low. If water is prioritized for human use over agriculture and non-functional landscaping there should be enough. Right now much of it goes to non-essential things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People in Phoenix treat their grass like they treat their guns, you can take their grass from their cold dead hands. There's no reason there should be year-round mosquitoes in a desert city.