Going Rogue Again with Jon Talton: "GrowthGasms", Suburban Sprawl + The Water Fix

"The only way to address the Colorado River shortages is to stop the sprawl, indeed to reverse it. Anything else is a dangerous lie."
That statement is taken from the wrap-up paragraph in Jon Talton's latest post in his site Rogue Columnist.com that was published online 03 January 2019:  The Water Fix 
"The Arizona media have been producing many process stories (e.g. this one) about the federal government's insistence that states agree on a plan to use less Colorado River water at this time of historic drought. . . At the same time, the same media have engaged in their usual growthgasm stories about Arizona once again being one of the nation's fastest-growing states in population . . .

Yet I have yet to see any story connect the two.
The disconnect is staggering, matched only by the inattention to climate change as a prime driver of the ongoing Southwestern drought.
Arizona's "plan" is to keep adding people, no matter what. The entire economy's foundation is based on continuing large increases in population. Not only that, but to continue doing so in single-family housing sprawl far from historic urban centers. . . This is a dead end. Reality doesn't care what Grady Gammage or Elliott Pollack or "Sun Corridor" Michael Crow want or are selling. . . "
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Now c'mon Jon > Sprawl is a Money-Maker for the Real Estate-Industrial Complex - it's our Artificial Paradise here in the Southwest