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Originally Posted by SAN Man
It's Phoenix, given the mountains in the background, but in the second photo it almost looks like Atlanta, a city in the trees.
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Phoenix is a lot greener than people seem to think it is. Especially in the nicer parts
Its much greener than Las Vegas. Vegas is in a slightly cooler but Drier climate. Phoenix (the older parts) is all former farmlands.
From the right Hight it can look very green (also the winter-Early summer tends to be green, in the heat of the summer lots of plants lose their vibrant color and darken or yellow a bit before the winter, and we even have quite a few trees that shed their leaves, Mesquites/Paloverdes dont fully shed but thin in the winter)
But Generally speaking it was SUPER green when it was all farms then, like most places, starting in the mid 1960's everyone lost their minds and decided for misguided reasons to tear down trees and pave over grass despite lawns using a fraction of the water Orange Groves did.
Modern landscaping even out in the burbs is much better, with big leafy trees that are heat resistant being imported from Asia. But we still get misguided policy about landscaping, even now they are pushing fake lawns (despite fake grass being a petroleum product) and pushing against lawns that do better for heat reduction and, again, aren't even the big water users. The biggest waste of water is in agriculture and manufacturing not form neighborhoods with trees and grass.
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