Net Blue: Offsetting Growth in Water-Scarce Communities

摘要

AS WATER RESOURCES—AND WATER SUPPLIES—become scarce, community leaders often find themselves in a real bind if they have failed to plan for economic development that is sustainable in the long run. “East Palo Alto imposes development moratorium due to lack of water,” read a headline from the California drought in 2016. “Pismo Beach approves building moratorium because of California’s drought,” read another. And water scarcity is not just occurring in California—a 2016 headline in Bozeman, Montana, declared, “Water shortage may force West Yellowstone building moratorium.”