This is yet another of the many lakes at the McCormick Ranch master planned community, which I have shown recently. There is a lot of water in Scottsdale, even though the Phoenix metro area is the desert, with only 7 inches (18 cm) of rain per year. Perhaps people like the lakes and ponds to give the impression that we are not in the desert. Developers like to add lakes and ponds because they can charge more for the houses they build around them.
Under the initiative of former Governor Bruce Babbitt, who later ran for President and served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Clinton, since the 1980's it has been illegal for developers or cities to use ground water from wells for lakes and ponds. It is obviously wasteful to pump water from the aquifer for decorative features.
We have photos of the stark landscape of the Atacama Desert of northern Chile this week on our Viva la Voyage travel photo site.
5 comments:
I'm not up on the politics of it all, but in my opinion, a little bit of water always looks good in the desert--to me it stands for life and hope in a place where all seems barren and desolate.
I can see why people would want a house on this lake.
Love the fountain -- great shot!
Beautiful shot. The water looks so blue.
The pic is really looking great, blue water and fountain so beautiful.
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