You know the type of suburbs that tend to wind around golf courses?

The ones with big houses whose windows must break all the time from wayward golf balls?

That's Rio Verde.

It's a suburb in Scottsdale, Arizona, built in 1973 to attract retirees.

Our 27,000-square-foot clubhouse is the social center of the community.

They've got pickleball, tennis courts, we hose twilight golf events, dinner dances,

concerts and jazz events that bring in perfect...

But what they don't have right now is a reliable source of running water.

The taps are dry in Rio Verde, foothills.

Since January 1st, people there have been skipping showers, eating off paper plates,

and when it's yellow, letting it mellow.

Residents getting creative.

I'm happy I have a pool because every time it rains, at least I can site for that.

We use it mostly for showering, for washing clothes, the bathroom.

Several Verde's long-time water supplier turned off the tap because of the severe drought

that has gripped Arizona and the rest of the west for the past two decades.

A water crisis is unfolding in the nation's southwest, as the mighty Colorado River begins

to dry up as a result of overconsumption and climate change.

Farmers have been forced to fallow fields, reservoirs are disappearing, a major dam could

stop producing power as early as this summer.

And it's raising questions about who gets to use Arizona's diminishing water supply

and for what?

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