las vegas - the beginning of the end !?!

"...
WATER:
Lake Mead braces for lowest level since 1965
Marinas, docks are moved as water level drops below last year’s lowest point

Lake Mead’s elevation has dropped to 1,103 feet above sea level,
and by July, the Bureau of Reclamation forecasts that it will be at 1,092,
its lowest level since 1965 ...
..."
http://lasvegassun.com/news/2009/apr/24 ... dicted-lo/

"...
Poor water quality ranking rankles local water officials

Las Vegas landed near the top of another “worst in the nation” list,
this time for water quality.
..."
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/de ... group-ran/

"...
Las Vegas can’t handle another era of unimpeded growth, study says

A report by the Sonoran Institute, an Arizona-based nonprofit think tank, says that if the Las Vegas Valley’s population grows to capacity using
the Bureau of Land Management acreage designated for development,
even the most stringent water conservation measures won’t be enough
to ensure that everyone has enough H2O.
...
The unimpeded growth of the past two decades has seriously harmed Las Vegas economically and ecologically, the report argues.
And unless government takes action now, during the lull, the planning mistakes
of the past 20 years could create an even more unsustainable future.
..."
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/ap ... ed-growth/




ps:
i always wondered what the water-quality might be in one of those summer-pools
with thousands of smelly douchebags and pussies wading around hours and hours
in the fucking heat

Vegas is a monument to conspicuous, unsustainable overconsumption. Of everything. That's just what Vegas stands for.

Hmm, how could we make millions of gallons of water evaporate really really really fast.... Hey what if we aerisolize hundreds of thousands of gallons of it at a time into the hot desert sun? Every 15 minutes?

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http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/S ... nnon/71486

The latest forecast projects Lake Mead will end water year 2010 at 1,077.2 feet above sea level, a bit over two feet above the drought restrictions trigger. Mead is at 1,097.03 currently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_mead

Changing rainfall patterns, natural climate variability, high levels of evaporation, reduced snowmelt runoff due to global warming, and current usage patterns are putting pressure on water management resources at Lake Mead even as the population depending on it for water and the Hoover Dam for electricity booms. A 2008 paper in Water Resources Research states that at current usage allocation and projected climate trends, there is a 50% chance that live storage in lakes Mead and Powell will be gone by 2021, and that the reservoir could drop below minimum power pool elevation as early as 2017.[7][8][9] However, Terry Fulp, manager of the federal bureau office for the lower Colorado, disagreed with the paper, saying that global climate models were not sensitive or refined enough to forecast such effects.

"...
Poor water quality ranking rankles local water officials

Las Vegas landed near the top of another “worst in the nation” list,
this time for water quality. Vegas
..."
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/de ... group-ran/

Vdara

Is Las Vegas taking any measures to curb these water problems?
Las Vegas Clubs
Thanks in advance,

-Jim
Palazzo Las Vegas
Las Vegas Shows
Luxor Vegas

Yes, roving death squads will kill you if you overuse your water allotment.

Also, we're working on some of these to decrease personal water usage:

a micro fabric that dissipates heat and filters bodily waste for recycling in order to preserve water.

Is Las Vegas taking any measures to curb these water problems?
Palms Hotel Vegas
Thanks in advance,

Yes, roving death squads will kill you if you overuse your water allotment.

Thanks for the good laugh! Seriously though, Vegas uses soooo much water but that's ok with me, it's a shangri la!