Arizona, stressed by years of drought, has declared its house-building boom will have to be curbed due to a lack of water, but one of its fastest-growing cities is refusing to give up its relentless march into the desert – even if it requires constructing a pipeline that would bring water across the border from Mexico.
The population of Buckeye, located 35 miles west of Phoenix, has doubled over the past decade to just under 120,000 and it is now priming itself to become one of the largest cities in the US west. The city’s boundaries are vast – covering an area stretching out into the Sonoran desert that would encompass two New York Cities – and so are its ambitions.
