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Developers planning to build homes in the desert west of Phoenix don't have enough groundwater supplies to move forward with their plans, a state modeling report found. 

Plans to construct homes for people located west of the White Tank Mountains will require alternative sources of water to proceed as the state grapples with a historic megadrought.

Amid a nationwide housing shortage, developers are flooding Arizona with plans to build homes even as drought conditions intensify and water shortages worsen.