The American Southwest has seen their once thriving housing and construction industries decimated by the recession. Economists have suggested that the region may never fully rebound from the historic housing crisis it faced. Fronteras, a multimedia collaboration focusing on the Southwestern border between the United States and Mexico, led by KJZZ in Phoenix and KPBS in San Diego, has produced a week-long series that asks the question: How do we rebuild the Southwest?
Peter O’Dowd, KJZZ news director and contributor to the Fronteras Project, joins the program to talk about the series' findings.
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Look around the world and you'll see that places with little water seem to be in perpetual turmoil.
Land in the Southwest is cheap because there's no water there. Why would they want to build it up? Strangely enough, the region gets a lot of sunlight, and the folks there seem hesistant on using it to power water recycling measures.
Sounds like a good job-producing enterprise there. Two gila monsters with one stone.
While listening to the segment on Arizona with Peter O'Dowd, I was surprised that not one word about the water situation in Arizona was mentioned. Even if Arizona was a rationally political state, which it clearly is not, I cannot imagine moving to Arizona where people spend more resources watering golf courses and gardens despite how obviously unsustainable that is. All you have to do is fly over that part of the southwest and see miles and miles of dried-up streams and lakes and the ever-encroching desert.
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