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Las Vegas Faces Water Shortage in Only Three Years
Did you leave grayness of Cleveland to move to Las Vegas a few years ago? Love the sun, the great casinos, resorts and pools?
Good luck to you by 2010. Without beating around the bush, the “>Southern Nevada Water Authority said last week that unless some much needed upgrades are completed (and prayers are answered) they will run out of water for thousands of residents by 2010.
Hate to be in Las Vegas when that happens. Won’t be a fun place if you can, say, only flush the toilets once a day.
From KLAS-TV in Las Vegas:
SNWA data shows drought conditions getting worse, not better forcing the general manager of the water authority to ask the board to spend more than $45 million to upgrade water pumps at Lake Mead.
It apparently will take at least 3 years to get the proper pumps installed and working so if they aren’t installed immediately, Armageddon awaits in 2010. Said General Manager Pat Mulroy:
“The point I was making today is that we have run out of options. We have run out of time to wring our hands about it and try to delay it. If we do that we are putting our own families and our own security in jeopardy.”
Even if they get the proper pumps in place, that is no guarantee that there won’t be shortages in 2010.
As I’ve said before, living near one of the Great Lakes, even with all of their problems, is becoming more attractive every day.
Here’s a house on Craigslist for only $159,000 on a street with a park that overlooks Lake Erie.
Water. Lots of water.
Maybe it’s time to start looking at all of that Cleveland lake front property.
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August 24th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
My mother moved to Boulder City in 98. She has a lake view and we have watched the shore retreat year after year. We have also watched Henderson creep closer and closer to Lake Mead. So many of these new homes have lawns! This is a desert and it is a terrible waste of water keeping a green lawn. This is probably a small part of the problem but it is emblematic of the wasteful attitude. Raise the price of water and these lawns will disappear.
August 25th, 2007 at 10:34 am
I don’t understand why they even have lawns in Nevada. It is all desert. If you want the lawn, stay in Connecticut, Michigan, etc.
It’s funny. People try to re-create what they know out in the desert. They’re all in for a rude awakening about the water issue.
September 28th, 2007 at 1:55 am
Not only is Las Vegas (and the SouthWestern USA) facing a crucial Water-Shortage CRISIS,,,(to certainly bite BIG in the posterior,,, within the next few years),,, but many OTHER spots around the globe are facing the exact same CRISIS. First of all, MUCH of Australia is experiencing the same,,, water-shortage crisis that Las Vegas is experiencing (having received absolutely NO rain over the last 3 years). Hawaii’s 3 most Southern Islands (Maui, Molokai, and the Big Island) haven’t experienced adequate rain in several years,,, as landscaping is starting to look all parched. Islands of Oahu and Kauai (however) are not quite as draught-stricken. Back to mainland USA,, Los Angeles (and all of Southern Calif) is ALL dried up. Even the USA-SouthEast (Tennessee to Alabama to Georgia to Florida) is becoming draught-stricken (dried up due to insufficient rainfall). So the bottom line is: If nothing is done soon, to STOP “Global Warming”,, the whole planet Earth will eventually end up “drying up” completely.
October 28th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
and for those of us that know that global warming is a cyclic condition that existed well before we humans ever got here, how the hell do you expect us ego-driven people that take responsibility for every leaf that falls from every tree to STOP global warming?