📰 Curb‑cutting Resistance Helped Reshape Tucson’s Urban Ecology

🌧️ Tucson: A man illegally diverted rainwater into streetside basins in 1998. Years later, it transformed a desert neighborhood into a shaded, food‑producing micro‑ecosystem.

🌵 The approach revived Indigenous rain‑harvesting traditions but also caused Tucson to change water management laws to be more nature positive.

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In 1998, a man illegally cut holes in a Tucson street curb. The result changed the law.

Brad Lancaster shares with permaculture expert Andrew Millison how illegal curb cutting to divert rainwater 30 years ago changed Tucson.

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