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Not sure where you grew up, but most of the population gets tap water from the CAP, which means the water ran for hundreds of miles in canals across the desert before going into a water treatment plant. It’s 90F+ easily in the summer in any modern builds in Tuscon/Phoenix.


Cap water is recharged into the groundwater aquifers.

Also you’ll notice no water towers.

And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon.


> Cap water is recharged into the groundwater aquifers.

Not as part of the “to tap” process.

> Also you’ll notice no water towers.

Not relevant. CAP boosts elevation many times. A water tower is needed if you don’t have a high pressure water source like the CAP canals and the salt river reservoirs.

> And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon.

Don’t emotionally lash out with irrelevant shit. Focus on the content, not the presentation.


>> And it’s Tucson… not Tuscon.

>Don’t emotionally lash out with irrelevant shit. Focus on the content, not the presentation.

If you can't even get the spelling of a major city in Arizona correct, your content is... as the kids like to say, "sus".


You’re still struggling to grasp any of the content. Your whole reply is only focused the response to your unrelated spelling dunk.

Having such superficial interactions with the world is congruent with believing the meme that all of Arizona drinks well water though.

I hope you do take some time some day to learn about the state you grew up in. The water projects are quite impressive engineering because there is no other option. The rural holdouts that pumped their groundwater dry learned that lesson the hard way.


Look dude it is you who doesn't understand how it works, at least as far as it concerns Tucson: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/70f626809fd84e228c0f32a... https://www.tucsonaz.gov/files/water/docs/coloradoriver.pdf

They tried "to the tap" and it pissed everyone off because the river water leeched out all of the rust in people's pipes.




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