Episode 18: A Crisis In The Desert By Paloma Martinez

Seventeen-year-old Paloma Martinez lives in Tucson, Arizona. She's heard that a global water crisis might be coming, and her mom thinks Tucson is going to become a ghost town soon. So Paloma asks the experts: how worried, exactly, should she be about her desert home? This story features interviews with Sharon Megdal, a scientist at the University of Arizona and the Director of The University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center; Joaquin Murrieta-Salvidar, a cultural ecologist at Tucson Watershed Management, and James MacAdam, a supervisor at Tucson Water.