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Arizona town sinking up to 3 inches a
year in fight to reach groundwater: ‘Train
wreck waiting to happen’

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Posted By: 4250Luis, 9/8/2025 4:20:12 AM

An Arizona town competing for basic access to clean water has sunk more than 18 feet over the past eight decades — with no signs of stopping — as locals struggle to make headway against area megafarms reportedly sucking the land dry. Residents of Wenden, an unincorporated community roughly 60 miles east of the Colorado River Reservation, have had to pivot to digging thousands of feet underground just to reach groundwater. For many towns, this wouldn’t be an issue. But along the Colorado River, communities and companies are locked in battles over its water supply.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Strike3 9/8/2025 7:40:31 AM (No. 2000772)
California had the solution. They sealed off all water coming from the snow-capped mountains and routed it straight to their coastal cities via canals. The farms along the route were allowed to die. Unfortunately they still can't get enough.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: JHHolliday 9/8/2025 8:12:05 AM (No. 2000782)
My son and I made a trip to Tombstone a few years ago to see where the gunfight occurred and attendant attractions. The silver mines were abandoned years ago when the silver ran out. The water supply became polluted with arsenic. Water has to be acquired now from miles away via aqueduct. As the late, great comedian Sam Kinison said of similar places, "they live in the f****** desert, nothing grows in the desert"! Deserts are difficult places to live especially for obtaining water and always have been. Many areas in the West are kept alive by artificial means and are recipes for a future disaster.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: seamusm 9/8/2025 8:21:26 AM (No. 2000785)
Another example of 'those that have - get'.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Encore 9/8/2025 8:32:06 AM (No. 2000792)
#2, thank you for that! That Sam Kinison bit was the first thing that popped into my head when I started reading the article. “Move to where the water is”!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Strike3 9/8/2025 8:50:25 AM (No. 2000797)
Sam Kinison possessed a rare form of comedic genius. I especially liked his bit about the nature lovers jumping into the water with Killer Whales. They call them f****** Killer Whales for a reason!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: earlybird 9/8/2025 11:44:23 AM (No. 2000866)
Historical Population Trends 2020 Census: 458 residents 2010 Census: 728 residents 2000 Census: 556 residents Now 404. Median age 51. Mostly "wjite Hispanic", 73% citizens According to World Population Data
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Bur Oak 9/8/2025 12:11:06 PM (No. 2000878)
What I found here https://www.azwater.gov/depth-water-data was that the max. well depth for the basin was 609 ft. and the average was 207 ft., not thousands.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 9/8/2025 2:24:06 PM (No. 2000946)
Arizona Legislature needs to get cracking. These Saudi water thieves need to be reined in.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: DVC 9/8/2025 2:27:05 PM (No. 2000948)
Kinneson said, while miming grasping and dribbling sand. "What is the soil? SAND! What will it be in 10 years? SAND! It's an effing DESERT. We have deserts in the USA, too.....we just don't LIVE THERE.-----MOVE!" Yep.
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