Labor's Community Service Agency, Metro Tech Vocational Institute and the city of Phoenix work together to repair and replace water-wasting plumbing in homes in older neighborhoods. Here a Metro Tech student shows a homeowner how to keep water from being wasted by adjusting the level of water in a new toilet installed in his home by the partnership. The following also is provided in Spanish . Water Resource Specialist City of Phoenix Water Services Department Look around on any summer day and it's hard to think of Phoenix as a desert.
Most homes have healthy green grass.
There are abundant bushes and trees. Some are palm trees - more likely to be found in an oasis than a desert. Maybe it is appropriate to think of Phoenix as an oasis in the desert. In many ways Phoenix is one of the world's largest oases, with more than 1.2 million people in the city and 2.5 million in the metropolitan area. This is an oasis in the desert for one reason only - imported water.