{"id":236383,"date":"2023-10-22T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/welcome-to-buckeye-the-desert-city-out-to-surpass-phoenix-by-importing-water\/"},"modified":"2023-10-22T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T14:24:15","slug":"welcome-to-buckeye-the-desert-city-out-to-surpass-phoenix-by-importing-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/welcome-to-buckeye-the-desert-city-out-to-surpass-phoenix-by-importing-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Buckeye, the desert city out to surpass Phoenix by importing water"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\"><em>This story was originally published by The\u00a0Guardian\u00a0and is reproduced here as part of the\u00a0Climate Desk\u00a0collaboration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">Arizona, stressed by years of drought, has declared its house-building boom will have to be curbed due to a lack of water, but one of its fastest-growing cities is refusing to give up its relentless march into the desert \u2014 even if it requires constructing a pipeline that would bring water across the border from Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">The population of Buckeye, located 35 miles west of Phoenix, has doubled over the past decade to just under 120,000, and it is now priming itself to eventually become one of the largest cities in the U.S. West. 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