las vegas water: Is Las Vegas Running Out of Water - Draining Lake Mead?
- 08/10/18 02:33 PM
Is Las Vegas running out of water? Is it draining Lake Mead? So often I get questions from those considering relocation, about the water supply in Las Vegas, and it's no wonder why. There are so many stories floating around online, or just passed along by someone, that at the very least, you'd want to question if they're true. These may include comments of Las Vegas historically being some dry, waterless and desolate place in the desert, and there is no reason why a city should even be there. Or that the growth of Las Vegas has it taking so much … (2 comments)
las vegas water: LAKE MEAD RUNS DRY by 2021!!!!
- 02/18/08 05:12 AM
This is what you may have heard from a recent report out by Scripps Institution of Oceanography. It claims that Lake Mead has a 50% chance of running dry by 2021. Being from Las Vegas, I'd like to add to this gloom and doom report. LAS VEGAS HAS ALREADY RUN OUT OF WATER!!! Yes, that's right, it ran out of water as predicted when the population reached 900,000. That happened in 1993, when the population in Clark Co. topped that figure. Amazingly, the population today is now over 2 million, the visitor count up to almost 40 million a year with many more mega resorts, and yet we … (11 comments)
Is Las Vegas running out of water? Is it draining Lake Mead? So often I get questions from those considering relocation, about the water supply in Las Vegas, and it's no wonder why. There are so many stories floating around online, or just passed along by someone, that at the very least, you'd want to question if they're true.
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