 We're watching water flow into the city's pipes from a sun-baked canal lined with palm trees. In this Phoenix suburb, it's hard to get a sense of what the future will bring for water. But there is one thing that can help Fleck and his department protect against uncertainty. Spending big money to find new sources of water. When you don't have that reliability, you have to make additional investments for alternatives, backup supplies, etc. And that's what it really takes to make sense of the world that we live in now.