“You don’t miss your water till your well runs dry,” an old blues song mourns, and ambitious developers and would-be homebuyers in Phoenix, Arizona, would probably agree, now that planned subdivisions have been curtailed owing to the region’s lack of groundwater. Elsewhere, affordable housing is being built in Ventura County, California, where farmworkers have long struggled to find decent housing. Like mourners at a bedside vigil, tree-lovers watch as the Oregon ash succumbs to invas...| High Country News