Arizona out of water in 6 years?

This is a photograph of Tucson Arizona from space. Looks pretty dry and barren doesn't it? One of the fastest growing counties in the country water is getting more scarce and the population is growing. According to the Smithsonian, they could be out of water in 6 years.

Fresh Water For All's Solar Stills could be the perfect solution.





Tucson AZ is less than 200 miles from the Gulf of California. This means that it'd only be a 200 mile journey to transport seawater to Tucson, and use massive solar stills in Tucson to create a new sustainable supply of fresh clean water. This makes Tucson a good location, it has the need, it has the sunshine, and it's closer to ocean than other areas.

Our initial project will be done on the coast of Texas, where we build a smaller (1/2 acre or so) version of the solar still. This will be a proof of concept project, proving that the solar still works. It will also be a chance for us to fine-tune the designs to make sure we can produce as much fresh water as possible. Once this is done, Tucson would be a great location to start on our next stage.

We'd start out buy securing the land between the gulf and Tuscon. Once we had that we'd construct a large pipeline to transport the seawater. Then we'd build our first full scale version of the solar still in Tucson. Once it's producing fresh water, we start work on a seawater channel leading to where the still is. Once the seawater channel is complete, we can build more stills, allow cargo ships to use the channel, and work on running pipelines/channels to other dry regions in need.

Tucson could be the starting point of an entire network of seawater channels and pipelines and solar stills, meaning new sustainable sources of fresh water, new avenues for shipping boosting the economy of towns along the way, and farms can even make their own solar stills running off the pipelines/channels to water their crops.

The significant part of this plan is that it doesn't divert existing sources of fresh water, it creates new sources. Conservation only goes so far, when there's none left there's nothing to conserve. Diverting water from other areas just puts more of a strain on other areas, spreading out the problem instead of solving it. This is a massive scale project and it's going to take a good amount of time to complete, but with your help spreading the word and any donations you can give, we can make this vision a reality. Future generations would have all the water they need.