{"id":150573,"date":"2022-11-20T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/arizona-town-looks-for-solutions-amid-western-water-crisis"},"modified":"2022-11-20T08:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T14:22:17","slug":"arizona-town-looks-for-solutions-amid-western-water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/arizona-town-looks-for-solutions-amid-western-water-crisis","title":{"rendered":"Arizona town looks for solutions amid Western water crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/arizona-town-looks-for-solutions-amid-western-water-crisis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drive just North of Scottsdale, Arizona, and you\u2019ll find a loose grid of dirt roads known as the Rio Verde Foothills. It\u2019s home to around 2,000 families drawn to rustic desert beauty and the freedom of living outside the city limits, but the town is about to become a symbol of the West\u2019s growing water crisis.<\/p>\n<p>John Hornewer moved to the area 23 years ago. When he discovered his new community didn\u2019t have water service, he began hauling water for himself, along with some of his neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs my neighbor saw me coming up the road with the trailer, they were like, \u2018Hey, could you stop and drop off a load for me?\u2019\u201d Hornewer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drive just North of Scottsdale, Arizona, and you\u2019ll find a loose grid of dirt roads known as the Rio Verde Foothills. It\u2019s home to around 2,000 families drawn to rustic desert beauty and the freedom of living outside the city limits, but the town is about to become a symbol of the West\u2019s growing water [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}