This is honestly quite impressive.

A China-tier ten-year urban transformation, happening in a major city in the United States.

I feel like discourse hasn't quite adjusted to this yet.

https://twitter.com/DocumentingATX/status/1764631328723460247

I used to live there in 2000-01. There were water problems and aquifer stress even then. I don’t the region had the carrying capacity. Bit like Vegas 50 years ago (I lived there too, 2012). Water is one constraint that’s very hard to flip to abundance in natural arid zones.

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Dubai certainly tries!

And it's always possible that newer desalination tech flips this problem over to trivial in the next decade or two, I don't have enough domain knowledge to judge.