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Arizona's Growth Machine keeps churning even as existing communities dry up

Thinking about Grand Canyon river flows

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Apr 17, 2026
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🥵 Aridification Watch 🐫

Rendering of the Halo Vista development and TSMC’s campus. Source: discoverhalovista.com

Sometimes it feels like there are two parallel Southwestern United States out there.

One is naturally arid, is getting hotter and hotter by the year and is gripped by the most severe drought of the last millennium or more. Its water lifeline, …

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