📰 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.
🔗 https://www.upworthy.com/in-1998-a-man-illegally-cut-holes-in-a-tucson-street-curb-the-result-changed-the-law/
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