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Originally Posted by phxSUNSfan
They are completely off base...especially in Central Phoenix.
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Of course, you can't limit the entire city to one specific area. That would be nonsensical.
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For desert environments, Phoenix would be. This is particularly true in the integration of native vegetation in downtown and new streetscape projects.
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And Tucson is the pacesetter for urban development in Pima County. Again, setting severe unstated limitations on your argument is a waste of everyone's time.
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I know Tucson restaurants use misters as well.
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I can't think of a single restaurant here that uses misters. Maybe the three at La Encantada. Otherwise, this is false.
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However, I think you are missing the point that we are speaking about the downtown and Central City revitalization.
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See, when you bring up development as it relates to our natural environment, you kind of aren't talking solely about revitalization.
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The number of residential swimming pools in Arizona on a whole, have decreased dramatically since the 80's and 90's.
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And this matters how?
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Water-wise, this is extremely true when comparing Vegas and Phoenix. Vegas actually uses water from Lake Mead to water its golf courses and fill its massive resort fountains.
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You literally just made this up. The fountain at Bellagio, which is all I can figure you're referencing, uses recycled water. The city of Las Vegas has been paying people to remove grass from their yards for years.
Meanwhile, Tempe Town Lake, which only uses some reclaimed water, averages evaporation rates of 5.2 acre feet a day. Even Tempe acknowledges that the lake loses the equivalent of two golf courses worth of water a year to evaporation. I doubt all of the Vegas strip water features combined lose that much water per year.
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Phoenix, uses gray water for those purposes.
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Another blanket statement disproved by the information above.
I'm really sick of talking about a subject that belongs in the Phoenix threads. Sadly, you've now attracted some slightly more annoying sidekicks to our thread.