Top commercial and residential water users in Las Vegas metro area listed as Feds declare water shortage and continue predictions of lower levels at Lake Mead.
I would think the biggest problem. You all live in a desert, grass, golf courses, man made lakes, massive resort swimming pools, etc.. what did you think was going to happen.
You do realize, huge chunks of CA would be just as desolate without Lake Mead. California BUILT THE DAMN THING (no pun intended). If it wasn't for CA's need for fresh water, Las Vegas would not exist.
@ASquadWiper The Ogallala Aquifer happens to be the biggest. Both aquifers are being drained beyond recovery. What’s more important drinking water or swimming pools, farms or water entertainment?
Yep. We don't have enough water to flush toilets or take decent showers, but we have plenty for golf courses and fountains. But the water we use in our homes is recycled and returned to Lake Meade while the water at golf courses and fountains is not. We can tell who matters in NV, and it isn't the people who live here. 😡
When I lived in El Paso around 2000 the city passed an ordinance that we could no longer have lawns, only public parks and school athletic fields. There are so many landscape rock types and desert plants that you can have a beautiful yard sort of like a Japanese desert garden.But as an example of our society now, the rich poor water into the sand while whole communities are getting shut down with no drinking water. Welcome to the U.S. with the rich having no limits to their entitlement.
I know that El Paso Texas is not as dry as Las Vegas Nevada but both cities are still in part of a desert so water is essential not optional and it certainly should not go mostly to the rich.
@@dennistaylor5052 Here too in Vegas, Traffic is insane. Massive apartment buildings going up everywhere. Traffic is insane. Migrant housing maybe? My sons gf went to look at an apartment and they wanted 1600 for a one bedroom. Crazy unless you figure they will be paid for with section 8. Not sure who would want to spend 1600 per month or 19,200 per year for a one bedroom apartment.
The 💘 of money is indeed the root.if you look hard enough you can trace $ to evil. Long term: more contractors developing and more people using more water. The builders don't care about future posterity they just want $. "That's their problem not ours"
I saw this coming 20+ years ago while in Phoenix for a job interview. After a long... day of traveling, I settled into my room and turned on the tub water for nice hot soak. 15 minutes later... the tub was still less than 1/2 full?!? That evening, I learned that Phoenix was 3 years into a drought cycle, and that there were under water restrictions, including having water restrictors on faucets. Today... the desert remains a desert, the population is up by approx. 20%, and water waste, though down, remains for those with the deepest $$$ pockets.
That was my wake-up call 20+ years ago. Today..., water shortages in the Southwest are due to over population. Developers continue to build communities in the desert, pump in water from other areas, and replace vultures with "Flamingos."
@@commonsense6611 I said this when I live in Arizona in the 80s. We took quick showers, not baths. We didn’t wash our car. Yeah, it looked nasty, but so what? I was amazed at how much water we slung to grow in a golf course, so the owners could sell houses. It was all reclaimed water. We saw it rain once in two years, during a dust storm. It literally rained mud. I knew it was overpopulated then, and I’m sure the population has almost doubled since then. We’re literally breeding ourselves to death. People all over the south should rid their yards of st. Augustinegrass, watering that stuff accounts for half of the water use in Florida. And private swimming pools? What a waste. The cities own public pools and so does the YMCA/YWCA.
I'm originally from Phoenix (now long since left) and it was said over 35 years ago that there would be a water crisis if the growth at the time wasn't held in check. Nobody listened and now the home building is at an insane pace.
@@malibustacy3606 There's a down side of that. They figured out when they remove salt from water and pump the discarded water back to the ocean. It's killing the local fish life from extra salted water. It's toxic to fish life.
Hoover Dam was completed in 1935. The population of Las Vegas in 1930 was a little over 5,000 people. Today there are about 2, 772,000 people. Can't expect to get blood from a stone.
Before Las Vegas was settled along with the dozens of other small cities, the whole region was called "the desert southwest". The region got that name because it did not rain there. Not because of climate change
True climate change hasnt reduced the amount of rain falling on Las Vegas... but it HAS reduced the amount of water flowing down the Colorado river. But dont let that get in the way of your agenda.
@@nottiification True climate change happens because of plate tectonics and or continental drift. Which alters ocean currents and wind patterns/jet streams.. The oceans control the planets climate and the sun controls the temperature of the oceans along with shifting magma at the core
But the underground aquifers **are** drying up due to less rainfall in their collection basins. This means less water farther downstream. Climate change is a real issue that has to be dealt with if our grandchildren are to survive... OTOH, I also **firmly** believe that much of the SW's water problems are also of their own making. LA stole three freaking rivers, West Texas and New Mexico have been damned near at war over water since before the Alamo, and the ENTIRE region cannot support multiple metropolitan zones of 250 thousand + people. The SouthWest mismanaged the land and water resources so they're being hit first, but even in my Pacific NorthWest [where water isn't as much of a problem] we're getting droughts. EVERYBODY has to face this issue.
This all reminds me of the first remark made by our tour bus driver when we rolled out of the city, on our way to Hoover Dam: “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Mojave Desert.”
One thing that amazed me about living in a condo in Vegas was the Home Owner's Assn prohibited 'clothes lines'... Causing the need for electricity to dry on sunny days! Driving past a sea of condos on the desert and No Clothes lines. HOA flop! A suggestion for improvement. Clothes lines can be really colorful.
HOA's should be restricted on what their by-laws should contain and only approved by the governing body that authorized the HOA. Rules which violate an owners Rights should be prohibited.
Watering grass in the desert is a losing proposition for all. City and county building codes must mandate desert-scapes for all new construction and HOAs must adjust guidelines mandating transition to a non-grass landscape. Unfortunately, it will likely take a catastrophe to change the consumer...no water pressure.
When I look at a desert community like Las Vegas, I shouldn't see great expanses of green. All landscaping should be xeriscape, with drought-tolerant plants and trees. Any person or corporation that wants a "lake" should be required to have the water trucked in from some distant place where it is plentiful. A per-person base should be established for every property, and water consumed beyond that should be taxed heavily. Just because someone can afford to waste water doesn't mean that they should be allowed to do so.
Capitalism can curtail the problem. As the supply gets lower then the price gets higher. If the price get crazy high then the millionaires would be funding projects to bring more water in with the enormous bill they paid. However they would prob just stop using so much.
I have been saying this on every platform in Las Vegas. Nobody understands the severity of our situation. SNWA needs to tell people we only have 5-10 years of water left at our growing rate of consumption. TELL PEOPLE THE GODDAMN TRUTH!!!
honestly, in todays age I don't see how telling people the truth would change anything. They'll continue to use and eventually just flee once the resources are dry. the hubris of man.
We need to be taxing the hell out of big water users. Tax people for every square foot of grass. I own an acre and when I bought the place, I tore out the grass and put in decorative gravel. I stopped outdoor watering. People need to join me.
@@sarges1712In about three-four years I am calling it. We should have xeriscaped and embraced our desert landscape a long time ago but it is too little too late now. Having to rely on California for water or anything for that matter is even more pointless. Nevadans will get screwed like we always do and these corporations will just put their money elsewhere to protect their investments. I will just have to suck it up and move further Midwest.
@@TheBandit7613 Maybe I am naive, but I thought decorative gravel was common in desert communities. Having and maintaining grass seems silly over there. Why did anybody think this was a good idea??
@@Shazzy1228 It's a display of excess, meant to impress. Like, "hey look at me, I have grass and a high water bill" Some people just don't care. Las Vegas should be issuing high fines for wasting water, but they're not.
Why do the Valley's water agencies spend so much time, energy and even money going after residential users to cut back when clearly it's the commercial users using the most. Just banning water features at commercial properties like casinos and water fountains at apartment complexes and other commercial properties would save more water than eliminating all residential lawns. Casinos defend the water features by saying, "tourists come to see them" is BS. Tourists come to gamble, not to see your fountains and rivers.
Do you have data showing that "Just banning water features at commercial properties like casinos and water fountains at apartment complexes and other commercial properties would save more water than eliminating all residential lawns" or is that a speculation or hunch?
Back when I was a young man, I wanted to live ouy west. California, Las Vegas, Texas... Thay was in the late 70`s early 80`s. I`m SO glad I stayed in good ol` Michigan.
UNLV has a native plant garden, its almost like a jungle in the desert. Go there if you want ideas for water conservation gardening. Edit: they expanded it in the last 25 years. It’s called the Baepler Xeric Garden. It’s next to Wright Hall.
@@CorruptInfinityOfficial Even in cities way up north this is true. I drove courier in Vancouver, BC and the winters would be 5 degrees warmer downtown and 5 degrees cooler in the summer as all was paved concrete or asphalt: a heat sink.
A commenter named Joe Thompson here wants the price to be increased for everyone as a solution. That will only hurt "normal" people and normal usage. Instead, do a volume-based price increase, if you are going to do any increase at all. No change in cost up to a certain usage level; if you go beyond that usage level, then a price increase. That's a million times more fair toward normal people who engage in normal use levels, while only increasing the cost on the rich who are most able to pay for their abnormally high usage levels.
You have a good point, adding to the cost of water would never hurt the rich. Goes with the saying "You can't tax the rich". To the rich it is a business expense written off in taxes, also an expense passed on to the consumer.
You neglected to mention the "Data Storage Centers"! There are at least 2 of them in the Vegas area and another 1 or 2 in Henderson. They use water to cool the data towers, and from what I understand, each building uses in excess of one million gallons a month, that gets vaporized! Everyone wants their "CLOUD" storage, well, there's a cost!
Funny thing is that the people that surveyed the Colorado River in the late 1800's said that it wouldn't support any amount of population growth and that there would serious repercussions later on.
@@shortattentionspangarage1312 John Wesley Powell also served as director of the U.S. Geological Survey from 1881 to 1894. During his tenure he touched off controversy by advocating strict conservation of water resources in the developing states and territories of the arid West. “There is not enough water to irrigate all the lands,” he remarked at a Los Angeles congress of farmers and developers in October 1893. “I tell you gentlemen you are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights, for there is not enough water to supply the land.” Subsequent interstate conflicts over the water of the Colorado and other Western rivers proved Powell’s words to be prophetic
Why grow grass in a desert region? Grass and grass seed should have been banned in the region many years ago. In addition, new developments should be halted until reservoir levels can be maintained to support growth.
Waay overdue for new attitudes to planting & maintaining grass in the desert 🏜 I agree with an earlier commenter who said those who use more than their allotment per person (unless some approved health reason), the price should climb rapidly as more is used, with a maximum cap to prevent billionaires from going crazy.
there are good grasses for deserts that can and do help trap water and bring it down to aquifers and help prevent flash flooding.... sad part is they aren't using said grasses. Grass isn't the issue, its what type and how you water it. see the Al Baydha project; grass is integral to healing the land in saudi arabia. It can work in america as well with probable better results since we get more rain. Grass has gotten a bad rap for too long, people need to be less ignorant and inform themselves on how the earth works before making blanket statements.
@@ShiningSakura - You are probably right about using the right grasses. However, I suspect that the grass you propose would be rejected in Nevada as its appearance would not be conducive to the inhabitants of the area.
Suddenly there’s concern for water usage,The same concern in the mid nineties,What happened then,A moratorium on building permits,Lasted sixty days,Then cancelled,The apparent realization that the population growth would financially impact the wealth flowing into Las Vegas was more important than water,Population numbers were hovering around 1.2 million then , of course the media forgot about the water shortage then
@@agenericbot Spending millions to install a lower inlet to catch a greater volume of water isn’t an answer,Climate change will have special meaning for Las Vegas shortly,Farming in California should see a fifty percent reduction by mid year next year,I’m fascinated with what decision will be made ,Corporate Agricultural profits,Cheap illegal disposable labor ,Or people’s needs for water,I’m betting on corporate agricultural profits
Two years before we moved to Vegas there was a law in place keeping lawns from being planted in all new home construction. In my area we had decorative rocks with native shrubs and trees. Drip systems were also used. Incentives were given to people that had yards and removed them. The HOA did have several pools and spas, the warm water pool was heated by solar and the gate entrance fountain was recycled water. Not perfect but better than most! Pool covers were used a lot too so there wasn't a lot of evaporation.
@@Aztec339 Surprisingly, pools actually use less water than yards. Once full you only need to account for evaporation while you have to constantly water a lawn.
Sad...before they built those homes the county/city should have forced the developers to use water conserving measures in their designs. Well, that might make it harder to sell homes to folks so that didn't happen. Funny how the public are at fault for the problems of county/city water issues (as well as other problems they have) and those who manage water systems like the colorado river project do not tell developers and local governments " the river has reached its capacity " to supply water. STOP building new hotels, casinos, homes, no more people etc.
Angel Park golf course uses recycled water and has done so for over a decade. Waste water is treated and piped to several golf courses in a delivery system separate from potable water systems. Hmmmm, I wonder why Ms. Spears failed to mention this?
Simple solution. Four parts. But here's an old sage...when consequences are inconsequential, there is no reason to change. Please read on. Part one...no more golf courses use of ground or municipal water. They have to install catchments to collect water during the rainy season ( there still is a rainy season) and use that. If they cannot maintain their wildly inappropriate vegetation, then they can redesign the course or close it. Part two. Do the same for home spaces. Private yards look like tropical Edens. They are not. They are actual oasies...supported by a very precious resource. They can install catchment the same way as above. Rain barrels are used everywhere. Use them here. Again, if you cannot manage because the grounds are populated by inappropriate species of plants...then put in more catchment or change the plantings. Part three. Residential tiered usage scale for pricing per unit. Since you have such a range of housing from tiny condos to mega mansions, there will be a range of 4 to 5 tiers for consumption. The more you consume, the higher the unit price. Each tier should have a price that is a multiple of the 1 below it. At the highest end, water should be so prohibitively expensive that high end users are forced to change usage patterns and sources. Part four. Prohibit the delivery of water trucks to golf courses and residences. Some will try to get around this any way they can. Why all this? Because people are arrogant morons. As long as they have money and power, they will do what they want regardless of the consequences. That needs to change. They can have all the money and all the power...they just won't get more water than anyone else.
The problem is you aren’t saving near enough water. Nevada gets 300k acre-feet from their Colorado River allotment. The lower basin states are currently conserving at least 1 million acre-feet of water and it still hasn’t been enough. To compare, here in Arizona, golf courses used roughly 120k acre-feet in 2019 for the entire state. Which was less than 2% of the 7 million acre-feet it gets from all of its sources. You could get rid of all of Arizonas golf courses, all of Las Vegas water use, all of Arizona’s indoor water use and you still would stop water losses. Arizona Agriculture uses more water than all other water uses combined, you could add the entire state of Nevada’s water and you wouldn’t match Arizona agriculture water use. With California agriculture uses way more than that. For some reason these corporations can’t farm anywhere else but here and make money exporting all over the country and globe.
do you know what the solution will be then i used to work for a large southeast water department -------they will just pump it in from nearby states almost like a railroad but just with underground pipes no big deal
@@freebird1ification which state will provide the water for tens of millions of people? Washington? Louisiana? Mississippi? All the surrounding states have drought issues. It’ll have to come from far, and lots of it.
It's funny how the city threatens the average LV resident with fines when these people are using 1000' s of times more than what our grass would use on a Sunday. It's so typical, if you've got enough money the rules don't apply.
@@matthoward8546 now do Arizona, where their conservative state continues to blame residents for water use while the allow farms to use 70% of the water. Including farms exporting water intensive crops to the Middle East. Hell, they were really proud of getting a Taiwanese chip manufacturer in 2020 which is very water intensive. They were also really proud of approving a copper mine sale to a Brazilian mining company that would have used 1/3 of the entire state of Nevada Colorado River allotment by itself.
@@matthoward8546 democrats are way better than Republicans. Republicans are only there to serve big corporations Big pharma big oil etc. and rich folks. Don't pretend otherwise
Summerlin also has HOA’s with yard/lawn code enforcement in many areas. (i know because my grandfather lived there & is the “get off my line” type who tattles on his neighbors.) Collectively, these houses also use a lot of water fighting to keep a green lawn in a desert. >.
Conversely in Arizona they have "rock" lawns with colorful small stones and a mylar underlayment to not only keep the rocks from becoming part of the dirt, but allow water runoff to fill drainage pipes feeding the reservoirs. Greed has always killed societies.....
The problem with water waisting in Las Vegas is that people is not educated to save and conserve water if you tell your neighbor he is waisting water he will come after you and tell you to mind your own business ….🤔🤔🤔🤔
If the demand for water from Lake Mead continues rising at its current rate, you can be sure that in the not too distant future tumbleweeds will be the only new players rolling into town.
Catering to rich idiots is wasting ridiculous amounts of water. But we must be able to golf and see beautiful green grass in the desert. Seems like a very, very simple solution to me.
The problem is the politicians let developers build and expand the city and added millions of people to a reservoir that was built in 1935 for a 1/3 of what the population is today. Common sense should have told them that's not going to work. But nope they keep building adding millions without expanding or building a new reservoir. Politicians want to blame everything but themselves for it and the media is letting them get away with it.
That's the good thing about where I live, we get a 6-7 month break on outdoor water use, so everything has a time to replenish itself. I know that's an issue in warm climate all year round, so they're going full speed, 12 months a year, so they have no resting period
Parks and golf courses use effluent water, go ahead and drink it. 😂. It's cleaned raw sewage and chemically contaminated water not meant for human use.. Very important your children, or yourself do not touch there face and or play in the sprinklers.
Man avoided building in deserts and extreme cold. In the last two hundred years our arrogance decided to ignore millennia of city locations, we have pushed into deserts and drained our lakes and rivers to make it habitable. It’s a desert and fails to be adequate for support of human habitation. What do expect?
The truth is man did build in deserts, but our modern urban planning system that is highly reliant on high water use, car useage, gasoline, and other resources is UNSUSTAINABLE.
@@dustywaxhead when man built in the desert it was in small settlements around natural water sources. It is the water we are running out of, not gasoline or power. There was even a plan to bring water from Texas to California. It would have cost 100 billion dollars. It was voted down. We are robbing Peter to pay Paul. We should learn from our ancestors and those tribes that live on the edges of deserts. But we are to smart for that.
In door water usage by apartments (aka renters) should not be lumped in with 'water wasters' or 'excessive users'. All water used indoors, including apartment units, is cleaned and reused.
Home users of water can reduce water use by 1)taking "navy" shower which means turn off water when you aren't rinsing, 2)allow clear waste to buildup in the toilet flushing only when solid waste is added (throw tissue paper into trash to avoid clogs), 3) wash/rinse dishes in dish pans or in low flow dish washer, 4) wash sheets/towels every other week, 5) try to wear outer clothes more than once, 6)convert grass yards to rock, 7) don't plant flowers that need watering, 8) wash your car monthly at a recycling car wash instead of weekly. Buying a white car helps because it shows dirt less and 9) try to wash your hair every 3rd day instead of daily. We have low flow faucets/showers but still don't turn tap on full blast for most applications. Tough times!
All great ideas. Unfortunately, the Wealthy will do none of those things. Make grass illegal everywhere it never grew naturally. They can't visit a park with indigenous plants? Surely they can make artificial grass that can be used for sports fields and golf courses.............They just don't want to. Figure out what the average family uses and jack the prices once someone exceeds the average. Also WTF is Lake Las Vegas? Is everyone in the southwest in charge out of of their frigging minds?
OMG we've got to stop using water for things like golf courses, hotels and parks. Until and or if we ever pull out of these droughts, wasting water use has simply got to stop.
Too little, too late! We knew what was going to happen when they were built and approved for construction. If there's a problem, stop building! But the REAL GREED doesn't want that! 😡
Not one person in ANY of these states, including my own (Nevada) should have grass on their property. I went to my hometown in Southern California and everyone still has LUSH green front yards and water thirsty landscapes…I converted my property to desert landscaping immediately when I moved in. I also ensured that the pool was in good shape with no leaks and a properly functioning autofill. I use below the average and try to hand water. It’s criminal what some of these huge mansions use for water. NOBODY should be using a million or more gallons of water EVER in a year, period! Nevada uses 4 percent of Lake Mead. Everyone needs to get on board with water conservation…they should have a long time ago.
Don't forget folks, the water in Lake Mead is your Electricity! Dump the Golf Courses! Dump the Lawns You Live in the Desert, not a Jungle! There is no excuse for using all that water in a Draught! Make it against the Law to have Lawns until the Draught comes to an end. If you want lawn, use Astro Turf!
I bet they are overwhelmed. I see water waste every day in apartment complexes and keeping track of this probably requires money nobody has right now. It's up to us to be our own disciplined citizens. The apartment managers all know that they are wasting water and probably aren't being given permission to do anything about it from the landlords so we need again to focus on greedy landlords. They can decorate with rocks and not with so much grass and watering the parking lots.
@Suicide by Muslim Living life like a normal human being is roaming like our ancestors. Playing golf, having lawns and swimming pools is artifical nonsense that isn't necessary.
I remember years ago the owner of the San Diego newspaper was using a lot of water for her landscape. Reporters ask if she was going to reduce. She said no that she'll just continue to pay the water bill.
The days of golf courses and lush summer lawns are coming to an end in the Southwest. The days of winter snowpack in the mountains are about over, so unless CA builds some massive desalination plants in the next few years, it's going to be a dry lifestyle for 30 million people by 2025.
Golf courses are employers, taxpayers and economic engines. They should be responsibly landscaped for water use. Many if not most in the SW use recycled gray water.
@@KB4QAA Yeah, typical Bougie attitude. Golf courses dump hundreds of tons of fertilizers and pesticides into lakes, rivers and streams which run into reservoirs and ground water. They take up thousands of square miles of land in areas of acute housing shortage. Let the lower class die of thirst so the upper crust can hit a ball with a stick and pretend they are feudal Scottish lords. Go back to criticizing your maid as she irons your Izods.
@@massivecumshot What a knuckle dragger. Flash News: They have allowed common morons on to public courses for over 140 years. Even you would feel welcome. Well designed courses don't drain into exterior drainages. In any case NOT a problem in Las Vegas, pal.
Water prices should be on a graduated schedule. Moderate home use should be a conservative price, but as it ticks up (non-household, recreational, private use) should graduate steeply. This would deter usage, AND fund water conservation/reclamation projects.
We live in the high dessert of Arizona and use just under 2500 gallons a year. This includes laundry and swamp cooler. I can tell you our usage for a day and most days it's about 3 to six gallons .
In the 80s they tried to put in place scale use pricing, high users would pay more based on tiered consumption but the casinos shut it down. Money has clout even when the majority of LV residents felt it was a fair method to apportion resources. At the time lake mead was full so the concept was brushed away as unnecessary.
Now also show Californias water usage as they use water from lake mead as well yet have no restrictions or is water used for the increase demand on almonds toooooo important?
My family of 4 uses less than 20 gallons per day. We have our own well, maybe people need to know where their water comes from so they can understand how hard it is to get it there.
Las Vegas is the Poster Child for how an area can FAIL to manage its most precious resource. Given the Lake Meade status, these Big Users need to be shut down and lawn watering forbidden. Perhaps they can Hope that the rain and run-off return but it looks like many will be investing in a wasteland very few can live in.
Love that nobody is mentioning that Las Vegas gets 90 percent of its water from the lower colorado river system, and Cali gets a much lower percent of that (I don’t know the number exactly) but California still uses more than 20x the ammount that Nevada does.(from the lower colorado system)
Well , like most if not all bureaucracies , they will have dozen’s of meetings and not come up with any Solutions or new ideas. They will continue to sign contracts with vendors and drain reservoirs during times of plenty so the painting contractor can paint the low water line.
Once Lake Mead’s water level drops below the intakes accessible to the California and Arizona water users, the rate of decline will drastically slow since the only intake still submerged will be the one that feeds Las Vegas. Then the city should cap inflow of outsiders to visitors only allowing for the growth in population to current residents’ family expansion until the drought is over decades from now. Southern Californians will then have to rethink the Desalination plant they just voted down.
Don't even need to put a cap outside visitors. Cut back on tourist water wasting things like golf courses, casino water features, expansive outdoor pools. That will have the effect of cutting some tourism and leave a lot of the gambling income in place. Cap growth in housing. Prohibit non-native live landscaping. Put a progressive (exponential) fee structure in place for water consumption for both commercial and residential customers.
The question is, even if these joints closed down, water use in Las Vegas would still increase because the population keeps increasing and thus more houses (and everything else that goes with them) are being built. The solution would be to stop moving to Las Vegas and people to stop having babies. Before there were people in Vegas, lakes, lawns and golf courses did not exist. Venice canals only existed in Venice, and not in a Las Vegas Strip resort in a bone-dry desert. There are about 150,000 hotel rooms in Vegas. I doubt many guests are concerned with saving water in their rooms, since they don't live here, so we have 150,000+ (probably twice that) transient visitors to supply water to each day. If Lake Mead runs dry, that will solve the Las Vegas water use problem, since there will be no water to use. If you want to take a bath every day, forget it. Get used to taking an annual bath instead.
that is the real problem, with everything. water, energy, pollution, waste disposal, merchandise, everything. no matter how drastic we cut down on anything we are only prolonging the inevitable. we need a real solutions not bandaids.
I’m surprised that the crooked city officials allowed you to name those rich offenders. Usually the government goes out of their way to protect the rich criminals.
The smallest unit of measurement is a gallon which tends to make the water usage on the high side. Most water meters measure water usage by units or cubic feet. One unit of water is equal to 100 cubic feet or 748 gallons so, divide the numbers by 748 to determine how many units of water is consumed. It's a lot less and more inline with how water companies measure and bill for water. Suggesting that gallons usage is about the same as using an eye dropper to count drops in a pint.
Most asinine decision regarding this dilemma that was made, constructing a “bathtub drain” at the bottom of Lake Mead so they could “drain it to the last drop”, instead of maybe making other more effective plans of avoiding this sh*t show!
Lake Mead is not a lake... it is a Reservoir. The asinine are those who believe preventing what is inevitable is the solution. The only solution to a growing demand and diminishing supply is... a new source. Las Vegas will need to invest in desalination technology and infanstructure to pull water in from the Pacific or Gulf of California. Generating the electricity needed can be done with solar power . In fact, cali and arizona should do the same. Does this sound crazy, unimaginable, impossible ?.... yeah....well so did the Hoover Dam
We are not in control of Lake Mead. Nevada only uses 4% of the water. California and Arizona use 96% of the water. Our water can't depend on what they do.
@@justayoutuber1906 You don't understand. Out of all the water in the lake, 4% goes to Nevada, 35% goes to Arizona and the rest goes to California. Nevada doesn't even use the whole 4% share. Nevada saw this coming 40 years ago and took action then. AZ and CA didn't plan for this. Nevada is fine.
Thank you for starting this investigative series. It’s interesting to know what private homes and HOAs are the biggest consumers of water and what they’re doing to conserve.
When the water runs out there, eventually it will, you guys will be wondering, “how’d that happen?” I remember we had water restrictions from time to time in Fort Lauderdale. It seemed a lot of people participated.
Damn shame the east side doesn’t have +250 parks, the community discrimination is real in Vegas. Weird because the entire city is a reflection of Las Vegas not just 1 region… Anyone ever noticed Hendersons’ street lights are white but the rest of the valley is “cliche”?
Apparently they haven't noticed how deep the soaker tubs are in the hotels. We prefer to keep our water in Wyoming although 500,000 acre feet are scheduled to be released this summer.
It’s almost like the homebuilders know they need to build homes while there’s still water and everything is at top dollar.. they’re building like crazy!! Home prices will drop to zero when that water runs out!! It’s gonna happen sooner then later I’d imagine..
Bought the parents a retirement house in the area in 2011 and was told by the realtor then that Las Vegas would be out of water by 2026. Four years to go, hopefully it'll make it.
The showers in hotels all over Vegas use a lot of water pressure, felt like taking a shower in a waterfall . More then any Ive experienced in cities all over the west coast.
Is desalinization out of the question? I hear talk of rising sea levels, glacier melting and global warming causing problems but nothing about using ocean water. Is it the process or the cost?
It’s crazy expensive and not going to curb peoples bad habits. Best thing is to force people to conserve water by significantly increasing the cost of water to known wasters and getting rid of gold courses and artificial lakes, fountains and things like that. When people see their eater bills go up ten fold or even a hundred they will cut back.
@@jaymelonokapu8089 We had that in Cali a few years back. I think they will have to do it again. The big push now is to replace grass in residential areas. At a minimum use recycled water on all the things you mentioned.
You have Sun for power now add atmospheric water generators to make water out of the air on every building that can afford them. If they can make water in the Soddy desert out of the air in Las Vegas should have no problem. If you're using water for irrigation outside the home or business then it should be mandatory that those companies and homes make their own water to water their plants lawns and gardens. You need three things atmospheric water generators, water holding tanks, and solar panels to make all the water you need for those needs. If by chance you have moving water anywhere in the county or state put in Waterotors in any slow moving stream then reuse that power to make water in any town. The following ideas are a larger list of things we can do today.Sorry, this is a long post, but my hope is that this list of ideas may give the World a choice for a better future. Maybe even create new jobs and companies to feed the planet. This is a on going project to help people workout real problems we all may face. The ideas list here if put into operations will help feed and cool the World by greening the largest deserts that lay empty and unused by man. A free idea that needs to be shared, by the World. You can't sell what you don't own. All these ideas are off RU-vid. Water shortages and food shortages are caused by the lack of rain and snow or is it more likely, the lack of large amounts of electricity to make water. Sunspots, cosmic rays, the Earth's Magnetosphere, jets stream, the amount of salt in the ocean water at the poles, and volcanic dust in the upper atmosphere, may be something you look into. Look at the history of solar cycles like the Modern Eddy Mimium we are now living in. Check the number of days in a now shorter and colder growing cycle we maybe living in as we look to feed the world. Time for a total marketable idea to feed and water the World. Well, well a water well, an old idea, but today we all can make water out of the air. Today we can use solar power, wind power, Waterotor or slow speed turbines, Natrium and or Thorium salt reactors and then use atmospheric water generators and Seawater distillation systems to make water all day long even in the driest places on Earth. Today with this large amount of power, we can also build water recycling plants to maximize how we use the water made by atmospheric water generators and Seawater desalination. Now let's take it to the next step. I don't sell any of these ideas, or work for any companies I talk about, the question is, is now the time to market a total package and save the planet? How would I change the world. First Trump wants to build a wall, Bill Gates wants to reduce the population, I got a better idea. YES a better idea, that we can build and do today. Just search all these ideas I put together here to solve real World problems. The applied future of Natrium or Thorium reactors that can make water and grow food, and can be used to feed the world. Now we start by building a Magnetic Levitation Railroad between San Diego and the Gulf of Mexico to replace the Panama canal for shipping containers traveling at 250 miles per hour. Now also, using the same right of way, build an Irrigation Project to turn the Southern United States and Northern Mexico into a World class agriculture center. How do I power this project by using a liquid fluoride thorium reactor (acronym LFTR; often pronounced lifter) is a type of molten salt reactor. If you search for a map of Thorium deposits in the United States, you can see by the map we have tons of Thorium all over the United States. Check on RU-vid and search What they don't want you to know about Thorium, and other Thorium videos. Also search Natrium salt reactors, both types of reactors can be used to make power. What am I going to power with Thorium Reactor or Natrium Reactor? I would build: Atmospheric Water Generators and Seawater Desalination plants. With these plants I would make Electrical power, Drinking water, Irrigation water, mine the ocean for Rare earth minerals. Along the right away I would build fresh water fish farms based on Hydroponics for fish meat and fertilizer. Adding a third Thorium or Natriun reactor and by pumping desalinated sea water to the head waters of all rivers in the area, that water would replace water tables through natural filtration into the soil. Projects of this size could feed three to four time the population of the world, by turning the Sahara Desert, Central Africa and Australian Outback into gardens. I have been telling people about this for years. 05/06/2022 To make extra power for the project just cover all open channels with solar panels the added bonus less evaporation and keeps solar panels cooler for higher efficiency. Combined with Waterotors in water moving 3 to 4 miles an hour you can than make power 24/7 vs just during the day. Enough power maybe made this way to replace all nuclear reactors for the project. Green houses made of transparent aluminum can be built in the far North and using Thorium or Natrium power plants with seven color LED grow lights, both the North and South poles could also be used to grow food. We can do this today. 12/12/2021 The use of transparent aluminum greenhouses underwater and in oceans can add additional grow areas for World food production. Eddie Delzer 01/12/2019 Update 7/4/2021 Do you have a nearby moving river or stream? You can now place a slow speed water generator on the bottom of the stream and make power 24 hours a day. The unit is called a Waterotor made in Canada. The Waterotors won't harm fish and can be scaled up to meet the needs of small towns or cities. Make the power miles away from the small town, sell the power to the power company than use the power to make water anywhere. Atmospheric water generators can make drinking water and irrigation water, and with a Waterotor, power can be made even in remote regions of the World. You just need moving water in streams, irrigation channels, fish ladders or even waste water outlet's. Garbage treatment plants can also use the power they make burning garbage to make water with atmospheric water generators and add storage tanks to supply small towns and cities. Adding Waterotors below dams can maximize electrical power made by any dam and replace power lost if the dam has a fish ladder or channel for fish to move up and down stream. A dam can be saved for flood control by adding these powered fish ladders and channels or notching the dam and putting in a flood gate to raise and lower the river during fish runs. Now people and fish can share the river. A now overdue idea, dealing with forest fires. You build and place atmospheric water generators and 100,000 to 5,000,000 gallon water tanks on hilltops to protect your town. You cover the tanks with solar panels and add wind turbines to make power anywhere. You sell the power, drinking water and irrigation water, then by adding irrigation pipes down the hillsides, you can create fire lines that lasts up to 24 hours. You make these fire lines by adding TetraKO, by Earth Clean at a 4 to 6 percent solution to the water. Turn on these stand alone units remotely, your fire trucks can work elsewhere or resupply themselves with needed water. Fire protection, drinking water, irrigation water and stand alone power for any city or town in need. These ideas all can be done today, just search RU-vid, and then tell someone. 01/27/2022 update Maybe it's time for field heaters powered by small portable natrium or thorium reactors. These salt reactors are a lot safer than the current uranium reactors we use now. The same reactors can be use to make water 24hrs a day by adding atmospheric water generators and make electric power and steam heat when needed. Crops are kept warmer and have extra water during dry summers. You also have large fans to keep the air moving around trees and crops. The same irrigation lines can be used to heat fields in winter. You just loop irrigation pipes to circulate heated water. The World dealing with nuclear waste and recycling of nuclear waste, a top priority and safety concern. Norway is operating what is called an irradiation reactor that uses thorium to burn up plutonium. This type of reactor could reduce nuclear waste up to 2/3 and gain extra power now lost by storing used nuclear rods. There are two kinds of books In life, The book of answers and the book of questions, both need looking at, take that idea with you. Live your life being of service to others and the planet.
