US rivers drying up, massive heat waves, devastating cold snaps

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spynx said:

I wouldn't blame climate change for this.
This is mostly human activities such as construction and lifestyle.
Deserts are deserts for a reason. They are there for other parts of the earth to get water. If you build estates there, you will need a lot of water to get grass as the soil has to be moist. The people living there would need water to use too. In the US, many homes have pools and fountains, all using a lot of water. Climate change has nothing to do with it.

Besides, two-thirds of the world is water. Why can't we start desalination and use that water?

Climate change is responsible however to the lower amount of rain- and snowfall in the regions adjacent to it which is supposed to fill the Colorado river where they source their water from, as well as the increasingly arid weather conditions outside of the desert regions.

But yeah, building in a desert is a stupid idea unless you really have a good reason for it, like some natural ressource that would get mined/extracted at the site, or not having been a desert in the first place when the city was originally built. Having a type of lifestyle that really uses a lot of water on top of that is just the cherry on top of the wasteful stupidity cake.