“The broad attention is showing the world what local leaders have spent the past half-century trying to prove: This desert city can be a major player in global tech and manufacturing.”
But putting the water shortage in the very last sentence of the story? Seems like burying the lede.
I love Phoenix - I lived there for 10 years and left in 2019 - but it isn’t all roses. Housing prices and cost of living are up, and the whole water situation scares me a little bit. Miss late night Filibertos though, tbh