Meet Arizona's water one percenters
Meet Arizona's water one-percenters A flood-irrigated home in Phoenix. Photograph: Cassidy Araiza/The Guardian In Phoenix, two cities are emerging: one is water-rich, the other water-poor by ElizabethWangWhitman Mon 5 Apr 2021 05.00 EDT Last modified on Tue 6 Apr 2021 15.17 EDT Every two weeks, Dawn Upton floods her lawn. She treks into her back yard, twists open two valves big as dinner plates, and within minutes is ankle-deep in water. “You have to have irrigation boots, girl,” she says during a video tour of her property in Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. She flips her camera to r...
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