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Francesca D'Annunzio in Rio Verde Foothills, Arizona

Their Arizona community was ideal. Then their neighbor cut off the water

A saguaro-cactus lined road where new homes are being built in Rio Verde Foothills, Arizona.
A saguaro-cactus lined road where new homes are being built in Rio Verde Foothills, Arizona. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images

In the warmth of Arizona’s winter sun, 50 residents gathered in front of neighborhood activist Cody Reim’s house last weekend, eager to discuss a solution to their problem. Despite living a few miles from a river, their community has no water supply services.

With a megaphone in hand and a case of bottled water at his feet, Reim called out to the crowd in his yard.

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