Rio Verde Foothills is an unincorporated rural community in the wilds of Maricopa County, Arizona. As you may know, Arizona is largely desert, and deserts are well-known for lacking abundant water.

Arizona law requires homebuilders in active management areas to secure a reliable source of water expected to last at least a hundred years. However, there’s a loophole: the law only applies to subdivisions of six homes or more. You can guess what some clever developers do: they simply build lots of “subdivisions” each consisting of only five homes.

These so-called “wildcat” communities are all over the state. They’re miniature havens of freedom, perfect for stubbornly independent libertarians who want to get out from under the thumb of government bureaucrats telling them where they can and can’t live. Rio Verde Foothills is one such.

But then they made an awful discovery. It turns out, even when you find a way to skirt regulations about water… humans still need water .

  • @Rooter@lemmy.world
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    -175 months ago

    Only sky media hasn’t been independently fact checked yet, as far as I know, so readers should know that it’s credibility is unknown.

    Seems ok. But I’ll be taking everything they say with a grain of salt.

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      5 months ago

      This is mostly an opinion piece – the facts cited have mostly been reported by others already, and the author provides links to those sources.

    • Zuberi 👀
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      45 months ago

      No org can be “fact checked” as a whole.

      Also this an opinion piece you dunce.

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        5 months ago

        Media bias fact check. Independent third parties are valid.

        Your argument is invalid since you resorted to name calling. You lost.

        Lemme try; you sure get downvoted a lot for being a cunt.