More and more we see too many regional water wars over a decreasing or over taxed finite supply of water.
There are many things to consider indeed.
Often a larger city will attempt to take the water in a river, lake or underground aquifer from another smaller region.
This sometimes temporarily satisfies the larger market, but then a drought comes or growth develops in the smaller region.
Therefore the smaller area suffers or cannot grow due to water resource allocations.
Recently Las Vegas, NV wanted to tap the Reno, NV Truckee River.
The river was over flowing that year when they came up with the proposal to build a long pipeline along the Highway 395 all the way to Las Vegas.
But in some years the Truckee River is all but dry too, well then what? And what about the huge growth in Reno, NV and Carson City, NV and all the little towns growing at 25% per year surrounding them? In Arizona in the rural Mohave County there is water available, but they will need it for future growth say the regional economic development associations while the larger cities in Arizona are thinking of ways to tap into that supply.
Water is needed for farming, growth and cities.
Unfortunately fewer people are doing all they can to conserve and in the end often it is the smaller rural areas and farmers who end up suffering because of it.
Consider all this in 2006.