Dry As A Bone: Las Vegas Enforces New Water Restrictions
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- Опубликовано: 17 апр 2022
- The megadrought gripping the Western United States is widening! In the Southwestern U.S., the massive Lake Mead Reservoir near Las Vegas is not as massive as it used to be. The water level has dropped to near record-low levels. Drought has reduced the flow of water into the river, which has forced communities to cut back. #lasvegas #waterrestrictions #drought #newsy
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I haven't heard a word wasting all the water it takes to keep all the GOLF courses green?
Stfu I’ll be working at a golf course out here mind ya own
Gee, who would have thought? You increase the POPULATION by the MILLIONS and expect the water level to be the same. These are the same people who drink a gallon of milk till it's empty and then expect the gallon to just magically fill itself up.
What did the comment say that got deleted? I only see your original post. I know it must have been true as youtube only hides truth.
Of course not…
That's a wealthy man's game so no problemo
Lake Mead is not "near" record lows. It IS at a record low. Who hires these reporters?
it is HISTORICALLY record low
@@musk-eteer9898 one might say it so low....its a new record...
Hmmm Lame stream Media?
Well technically the video is accurate now. t's two weeks old now and the lake is lower than it was then so...
Duly noted. What are your proposed solutions for low lake levels and reporters?
VEGAS IS DEVELOPING 5700 RESIDENCIES, 2 STADIUMS, A CASINO, TWO MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR APARTMENT BUILDINGS, THREE HOTELS. I GUESS WE DIDN'T GET THE MEMO. OTHER CITIES ALONG COLORADO RIVER ARE ALSO DEVELOPING LARGE PROJECTS. I WROTE OUR GOVERNOR SIX MO. AGO. NOTHING RESPONDED.
BLOODY MADNESS, GREED TOO !!
Oh, your governor responded, just not to you. He let the proper authorities know that "We have one that can SEE!" Your family can expect to be the first put into the camps.
Man will keep doing the same stupid things he always did, until he cannot. Especially when 💰 🤑 💸 is to be made.
Because he gets a share of what they make for approving it, all of those planning committee receive money from under the table deals behind closed doors
Sixty percent is used for outdoor, non-returnable water usage? Well, DUH! It's hard to have sympathy for those who depend on Lake Meade when such lack of municipal planning is going on.
It's going on everywhere here on the South East coast. EVERY inch of land is now getting a house on it. Just wait till those category 4 hurricanes hit and everyone will run to the Government for a HANDOUT. It won't be long before no insurance company will write insurance if you live within 200 miles of the Atlantic Coast. People need to assume the risk, just like the people in CA who live in the areas where fires are common. You want to live there, then YOU take the risk. Don't expect the Government to bail you out.
Still today there is NOT a since of urgency in SoCal to change the way we use water. Talk is Cheap. We are still building and if you want a swimming pool, we got that to.
Water was drained out to the ocean via the feather river which has been at FLOOD STAGE for 2 years. They will make a FORTUNE selling this parchjed land to the CHINESE for farmland. NAncy Pelosis HUSBAND has been doing this for decades
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Talk is cheap and so is water.
At current pace it will be BELOW all intake tunnels within 14 months and Vegas will lose ALL drinking water!
@@jaysantos536 no drinking water but Lake Havasu will be full for the drunks on boats.
@@cammontreuil7509 When water is GONE it will cost nothing...
Plant native desert plants in yards for really beautiful landscape designs! Cactus comes to mind...
I dont understand why are they removing the grass, if you stop watering it it will eventualy die and decay anyway.
So then maybe you don't care about having ugly looking dried up brown grass when colored stones would be improvement?!
Wildfire risk can go up too unless excess dry grasses are removed.
When it looks ugly, it won't promote others to do the same. Just acknowledge you live in the desert and make your house look like it. It's actually more beautiful than an out of place green lawn.
HOA states front has to be BEAUTIFUL or fines
No, dried grass will not decay in those conditions. Composting only takes place in a very moist environment where bacteria can develop and break down the organic material. That is why it must be removed manually.
Just keep building and building. Thats being water smart!
@Baby Blu3 illegals conserve nothing.
Gee, who would have thought that building a large city in a DESERT could be a bad idea??
los angeles was a bad idea... yeahp it was pretty much desert too...
Yeah... but the money! You have to think about all the money! They cared about the money!
And building stupid golf course in the Desert
@@evecarrington562 And they still do. Oh yeah, and guns. Gotta have the guns to get the money
The waste reminds me of a Simpsons scene when Homer and Ned are in a life raft on the ocean. Homer says, "Give me that drinking water, my socks feel dirty again."
Stop building for newcomers. People move there then want to make it look like the place they left. It's a desert!
nobody moves there than plants a lawn. Quit grandstanding on some you don't know
It is illegal for new home construction to put in lawns there now, but construction itself uses massive amounts of water to keep dust down (which has to be done legally). The real problem is that banks are holding onto foreclosures and not selling to drive home prices up. Otherwise there would be no market for nee construction.
I love how they keep referring to is as a "drought" caused by climate change. He morons, it's a desert. It's been a drought in that same area for thousands of years. What's causing it is the increase intake from California and the massive population increase of Las Vegas and towns surrounding colorado river
At current pace it will be BELOW all intake tunnels within 14 months and Vegas will lose ALL drinking water!
What are "he morons?"
@@jeffcolorado it's a typo lol. I meant to say "hey morons"
The elephant in the room: too many people 🐘
@@valerierogers9609 BS. You must never travel outside big cities. There BILLIONS of acres of vacant land that could be developed for residential housing in the US.
The population of southern Nevada has increased by 50% since 2000? Wow, that's an amazing statistic.
Ya. They shouldn’t let any new housing go in. The banks are holding onto foreclosures to drive prices up.
@@rockjockchick rest assured that if there is money to be made, they will continue, water supply be damned (pun intended 😉)
Too little too late to conserve water and new homes and apartments continue to be built in S. Nevada. HA !
lives in desert... complain when water is in short supply....
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75% of the water is used by agriculture so telling homeowner to turn off sprinklers will have little impact as has been the case in the past.
People are used to having free access to water. Oil profits can't last forever, so they are preparing people for when water costs $15 a liter.
so what do we do? tell the farmers to stop farming? then what about food production or the products they make with their crops. honestly its just been a bad idea to constantly expand with such a limited resource.
@@TheRedneckjim Just watched a few pieces on the situation in Arizona and learned that it's ok for "agricultural" businesses to take whatever groundwater they can find on rural land with no restrictions. So to some extent, big business comes in and grows stuff with AZ water and ships it out of the state for nice $$ while the limited groundwater supply goes poof.
This as they continue to build homes that may not have a water supply. Insane.
@@zoghackendorft5541 Pull up Google Earth and look at all those "little" green circles and squares in the middle of the desert in Ca and Az. Restricting household water use won't work until they figure out that raising crops in the desert (mostly for export) is the culprit, using the vast majority of water in the southwest.
@@TheRedneckjim they need to use brains and tech to grow what can be maximized with fewest water resources. Ie: not cotton, not turf, not rice. Think enclosed. Drip pc controlled irrigation. Etc.
To combat Nevada's drought, President Biden said he will ask The Belagio Hotel in Las Vegas to end their water fountain show which uses over 1000 gallons of water every second.
1000 gallons of water per second used in ah fountain show ? That can full back lake Mead 😀 !
The actual record low was before man built the dam in the desert. Droughts are expected in arid to desert regions and it will continue.
It's weather warfare actually....
You don't know anything about accelerated climate change, do you.
@@SteffiReitsch So you have empirical historical data that this "accelerated climate change" has never happened before?
What about golf courses?
Excellent, but Lake Mead is going to attain dead pool no later than 2025. So you better migrate now.
I would like to live on the Strip part time.
@@ViceCoin The stealing bras and panties from your neighbor's clothesline video will put the kibosh on those plans.
The States of AZ and NV should sue Newsom to turn on Huntington Beach DeSal Plant. Right now he is dragging his feet on granting environmental permits for Huntington Beach DeSal Plant
Once Operational HB will produce 50,000,000 gallons/day potable-water. This is enough to replace the California Aqueduct at Lake Havasu which currently discharges 43,000,000 gallons/day for Southern California
SUE NEWSOM TO PERMIT HUNTINGTON BEACH NOW !
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@@thepushanddewproject agreed
At current pace it will be BELOW all intake tunnels within 14 months and Vegas will lose ALL drinking water!
@@jaysantos536 they better act fast
Thanks jay!
@@jaysantos536 Source please?
This is all too little too late because the drought will continue and even worsen and the Lakes Mead and Powell will keep dropping. What will cities do with a million + people do when there is no more water from the reservoirs??
Lake Mead will stop producing electricity in 20 months. Time to buy stock in coal...
get out before your house is worthless, the midwest has plenty of water and it's theirs and will support their future growth
They'll have to be abandoned. They should have never been built in the first place.
@@MrMountainchris Apparently the ones who have the power (whether that means the politicians or the rich developers or both who knows) are expecting everything to somehow work out fine. Phoenix is apparently the fastest growing city in the US.
Water will always arise to $$! Then it's a matter of how much will it cost?
Next will be a fight to stop the damage from Dust.
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Water use per capita can drop really low, but if total use still rises it doesn't matter. The river is still just the river. It doesn't care about "per capita". If we have a greater total need we need more "rivers".
Outlaw Golf Courses already!
Or just use artificial turf
tell them to stop building homes and hotels out here and make the residents remove all front lawns in homes and grass removal in all business fronts.
I hope they're recycling the grass they're "ripping out". Grass in AZ is ludicrous too. It bothers me at how wasteful the water resources are used here...
There isn't a megadrought... There's only a misappropriation of water.
There is not a lot of real grass left in the community to rip out? I checked on line and there are over 50 golf courses in the Las Vegas metro area.
That is a lot of golf courses.
Lol. The rich won't allow you to touch thier golf course grass. But I bet you it looks greener than ever. Is it called rich privileged 🤔?
@@katiedid1851 golf courses use recycled water
We need to do the same thing here in Cali. All businesses shouldn’t have lawns. We have enormous warehouses with huge stretch’s of lawns that are drenched nightly. Many places have broken sprinklers that gush water out and down the drain.
don't blame the lawns you hammerhead, blame the democrats who have controlled your state for 50 years.
how about shutting down those tech companies that use hundreds of thousands of gallons of fresh water to cool their machines and because of manf tolerances they cannot filter that water and use it again ??? same companies now building in Arizona and doing the same thing
Omg, the average U.S. citizen being told what to do by the goverment and actually going through with it. Never seen before.
If you visit Las Vegas Nevada you will be forced to urinate eight times before you leave the state you have to give back to the state 🤓😏
When living in the desert, have natural desert landscaping. If you want a lawn, move to the midwest.
*i have fake grass on my lawn too. i just save 15% of not having to mow my grass ever again and it will always be green.*
Watering grass is not the problem. Agriculture in the desert is the problem.
Why remove the topsoil and grass instead of just letting the grass die?????
When I lived in San Diego in the early 70's, people had small concrete front areas painted green. But I suppose that could also have ecological consequences, such as too much heat!😱
Paint it white.
What is you point?
Plenty of "artificial" turf around for landscaping that helps lessen water use.
Exactly.
Removing grass and replacing with gravel isn't the answer either.
Rocks produce more heat thus increasing temperatures throughout.
More heat traps more gas.
Where as grass eats carbon dioxide and doesn't deflect the heat into the atmosphere.
The problem is balance.
You can take away all the grass in the Las Vegas but when you continue to add more homes, more people living there, the inevitable is staring at you in the face.
There are too many people taxing an already severely over taxed system.
Property in Las Vegas won't be worth 3 dead flies by the end of the next 2 decades if not this one.
You foolish Amerikans, sheesh. Just let it go natural, folks. A desert landscape has its own beauty.
Stop trying to live in the desert!
How much of the water is lost through leaky pipes?
What about casino fountains?
This is the golden time/opportunity to take action clean up rubbish in the entire lake!
Scary.
Don't worrie mexicans on the way.. Lol. 60 million....
If we are to conserve resources, any resource, flood the country with all the world's welfare and social service seekers looking for a better welfare life.
I’ve said it before I’m gonna say it again California has no right to Colorado river water. They can’t even manage themselves properly why the hell should they have water from the Colorado river to waste.
Ok Boomer
I wonder what Newsom has to say about that ?
What a great story. Really. Las Vegas seems to have its act together. That is a great program they have.
Using so much grass has always completely blown my mine, mostly in the middle of a harsh desert. Thre are so many amazing and truly pretty native plants that could replace it ( and look better)
Whats wrong with grass as long as you don't water it?
At the end he says there's not a lot of grass left to rip out. What about all those golf courses? There are lots of golf courses in the Las Vegas metro area and there's LOTS of green grass there. Isn't this rather a case of whoever PAYS a lot gets the green grass?
Irresponsible water usage from agriculture, and pointless green lawns are the two biggest targets they should be going after. Allowing schools/cemeteries/parks/golf courses to keep their green lawns is also irresponsible. I've seen some schools run their sprinklers for hours every night. Fake turf can be used for sports and the dead don't benefit from grass at all. If a golf course doesn't use native plants and their own well water (which the consumption of well water also needs to be regulated) then it shouldn't be allowed to exist. People are literally going against mother nature terraforming deserts with no real plan or accountability for their consumption of scarce natural resources.
My city water bill was the same cost no matter how much water you wasted on your lawn, if they raised prices on water (at least once the bill surpasses what the average household uses to survive) people might actually cut back their usage. I believe access to water should be a right, but it's also completely taken for granted and there needs to be hard regulations to stop the misuse as we move towards an era of increasing overpopulation and diminishing natural resources.
Arrest the lawbreakers, otherwise, there is no irresponsible agricultural water usage.
All lawns need to GO, no exceptions.
@@SteffiReitsch what about some of the people on the bureau of reclamation don't you think they have to go to ?
@@winstonmarajh991 I don't know enough about that, but if they're not tight with water, then they need to GO.
Southern Nevada is circling the drain. When Hoover dam can't generate electricity, it's over.
I find desert landscapes very attractive 😍 More cactus please...
removing grass and what are they puting in replacment?
Original Desert landscaping!!!
In CA, cities will fine you for having brown grass.
5/13/22: This video states that over the last 2 decades NV population grew by 50% while per capita water use fell by 50%. That means Nevada is walking down an up escalator and getting no-where. This drought caused us to quickly reach the point where continued growth is not possible. We should look to Europe to see how to be economically healthy without population growth.
50% Population Increase + 50% Per Capita Reduction in Water Use is still a 75% increase in total Water Consumption
The only way this government knows how to make money is take everybody from the world and have them stuck in a tax paying ghetto caught society in America
@@thesun6211 Actually, that would still be a reduction, but of 25%. But yeah, trouble ahead.
@@zoghackendorft5541 thanks f/t math correction, mea culpa. Me and my resistance to waste paper on simple math, or look for a calculator on anything that doesn't require roots, exponents, or graphing...😅
Awesome y’all!!! 👍🏽👍🏽
You don't have to remove the grass, just stop watering.
Vegas has been wasting Water and Electricity for a very long time
They need to stop Lake Las Vegas from pumping water from Lake Mead.
And yet today the water has never been lower
Here where we live we go through droughts every YEAR. We water are yards.. at FUKIN nights! For twenty years....
I hope there starts sand storms for all the grass pulled out! LOL Fools.
Imagine having green grass as a luxury. Yikes.
It's crazy cause in California they turned down a proposal to clean ocean water an make it drinkable
Not enough. Get rid of all of it, including cemeteries, parks, golf courses.. ALL of it.
Could this be a result of over building?
No, it's over farming that is the problem. Agriculture uses over 80% of the water from the Colorado river. Converting a desert to farm land is the problem.
No, it's actually called, "overpopulation." There was no man made global warming until people began breeding like rats. People having 2 children did not create the mess we are in! Thank the pope, and the muslims!
@@glasslinger Why is it that people that think the world is overpopulated never decrease the population by one? You are part of the problem.
@@justsomeguy6474 Each human couple that is on earth is entitled to two children. If everybody stuck to that we would have a drastically smaller STABLE population. It's the people breeding 4, 5, 6,....10! or more that are the problem. I have not had ANY children so I am definitely not part of the problem.
@@glasslinger Who are you to decide how many children people can have? Your parents had one too many.
I don't understand why they don't have rainwater harvesting for every household
Why ain't Nevadan's water farming, cloud farming, fog farming at higher elevations ? Like in the Atocoma desert ?
When you attempt to harness Nature and Nature gets sick of it...
They need to look into permaculture projects that will help retain water.
Keep those Golf Courses green . I'm going to retire soon. We can drink beer and soda.
Why rip out the grass? Just don't water the grass.
The Southwest is 20 years into a 500-year drought.
Imagine moving to a desert and expecting to have grass and water features. Manage your supply. Ffs.
The should be planting more trees that support desert climate and low rainfalls, just to help, the city was build in a dessert and it will be a dessert.
The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution. Political will is the biggest hurdle to accomplishing big projects. Especially in California and after blowing $100 billion on a high speed train to nowhere. I think it is obvious to most people that something drastic needs to be done to solve the water problem and that conservation only goes so fare. I would propose to fund the tunneling part of this solution with a system similar to the Permanent Wyoming Mineral Trust Fund is a type of permanent fund called a sovereign wealth fund (SWF). SWFs are typical government funding tools. They consist of investments and assets that the government is not allowed to cash out or deplete. However, while it can't touch the principal, the government normally has the right to spend any revenue these investments generate on appropriate functions and expenses. Each state, California, Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and of course Wyoming could place a small 2% tax on the energy sector and use those funds to invest in Geothermal energy projects and eventually the aqueduct can link up to those projects. There are already over 800 geothermal energy projects in California alone. The equation for my big solution is (ocean water brought inland through large underground aqueducts + combination geothermal and desalination plants = clean water and clean energy).
The trouble with sea water desalination plants is they use a lot of electricity , a lot ! So they are very expensive to run .
@@welshpete12 Political will is the biggest hurdle to accomplishing big projects. Especially in California and after blowing $100 billion on a high speed train to nowhere. I think it is obvious to most people that something drastic needs to be done to solve the water problem and that conservation only goes so fare. I would propose to fund the tunneling part of this solution with a system similar to the Permanent Wyoming Mineral Trust Fund is a type of permanent fund called a sovereign wealth fund (SWF). SWFs are typical government funding tools. They consist of investments and assets that the government is not allowed to cash out or deplete. However, while it can't touch the principal, the government normally has the right to spend any revenue these investments generate on appropriate functions and expenses. Each state, California, Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and of course Wyoming could place a small 2% tax on the energy sector and use those funds to invest in Geothermal energy projects and eventually the aqueduct can link up to those projects. There are already over 800 geothermal energy projects in California alone. The equation for my big solution is (ocean water brought inland through large underground aqueducts + combination geothermal and desalination plants = clean water and clean energy).
@@welshpete12 it seems you didn't read the proposed solution of using geothermal energy to pump and desalinate the ocean water. Geothermal energy can be used to create electricity or used another forms. Desalination sounds like a good plan to have more water supply. There are other ways to provide the energy needed to do this. Solar power, wind farms, hydroelectric power, but we're talking it's not enough water to do that. Obviously there's not enough water to sustain all these people who think living in a desert is a good idea. Hello, if you live in the desert can you expect all the water you want?
@@welshpete12 And they're horrible for the environment. All the brine they create destroys ecosystems.
Desalination, water pipelines, etc. are all bandaids and will not solve the problem. You can build all the pipelines you want, if the population keeps growing we're just going to need more and more water.
Next up, low flow toilets can cut water usage by more than half per flush...
First thing I'd modify are the 88 golf courses in Nevada.
I was posted to Phoenix AZ several years ago from the U.K. As a European flight examiner for the various flight trying organisations there, taking advantage of the good flight training weather. It astounded me, leaving rainy England just how much sunshine there was, and how little rain. I was even more dumbfounded in view of acres of luscious lawns, swimming pools, golf courses, fountains, when I found out about the parlous water supply situation. I never remember any warnings by the authorities to conserve water. I returned to the U.K. a few years ago and I am sorry to hear that my worst fears regarding water supplies only now appear to be a cause of major concern. It seemed obvious to me that the balance between supply and demand for water, in all of the South West states is and always was a ticking time bomb.
Obviously you don’t know what every city in the Southwest US is doing to conserve. I live in Albuquerque where there are many city ordinances in place to save water and have been for more than the 20 years I’ve been here. Every year the city reports we’re doing better than most other cities in our region. Do research if you’re truly interested.
@@lewstone5430 That is good, however there is no denying that due to changing meteorological conditions there is less snowfall year on year. In concert the population of the Southwest states have witnessed explosive growth over the past few. Decades. The major source of water, for many urban areas is the Colorado. I am sure you have seen real time photographs of lake Mead and Powell. Hats off to the good citizens of Albuquerque for electing people with foresight. I believe I mentioned that my experiences were primarily the greater metropolitan Phoenix area. Also, I appreciate your advice regarding research but I am an ordinary guy reporting what I see and hear, not an Hydrologist or social scientist. I was commenting on how the good people I lived with there, appeared unaware of the danger of more people wanting water from a reducing supply.
California and Mexico need to get their non ag. water from somewhere else like desalinization plants. They have let their cities grow beyond what the area can support. More people=more money. Money>environment.
Awe. The city of debauchery is drying up? OH my.
feel bad for the sprinkler companies
The average American golf course uses an average of 90 million gallons of water each year. Shut down all golf courses in the states of Nevada and Arizona and save millions of gallons of water each day.
Need to cut golf courses too.. as much as I love playing the game, it’s a game and not needed for life
the idiots will cut growing food before they cut growing grass on there water wasting golf courses
The "oil-bassed" synth grass will leach chems, not produce O2, absorb heat, and make the ground underneath contamidated...better plant food....
Get rid of the Gulf courses & swimming pools. Get rid of the almond orchards.
Solution for the West's water shortage problems. Build major pipelines and canals from the Pacific Ocean to flood inland seas that are currently deserts up to 200 feet or more below sea level, including Death Valley. Animal life there would flourish. And they would act as huge bird sanctuaries and as a much more interesting tourist attraction. These become inland fish farms for tropical saltwater food fish. They would also act as source for major desalination plants that pipe millions of gallons of fresh water per month to southern Nevada and to Arizona. There will be a need for one major one-billion-dollar desalination plant for each million in population. California would need 40 plants, which would supply 1500 gallons of fresh water a month to each California resident. We use solar, wind, tidal and wave power to power the process. California would need to add another 20 billion to the process for the energy sources and infrastructure. Their plants would be along the coast. Arizona and Nevada would pull water from the new inland seas and their residents would pay for it. Nevada would need three plants and Arizona would need 8. We are looking at about 100 billion for the majority of the project, which would save three states from their short sightedness. These states would also need to embrace grey water systems for homes and businesses from water not tainted with human waste and soaps. The rest of the water can be sent down sewers systems that can treat the water for farmers and the waste as well by turning them into worm castings to aid farmers as a form of fertilizer and for locals as well for home gardening. No smell, just perfect nutrients for your plants. It will probably end up being closer to 150 billion, but the end result is where we should have been decades ago. We can fund it with the savings from bringing all of our soldiers home and station them in and around the U.S. and its territories and by handing over all our foreign military bases to our allies along with 25% of the savings realized so they can keep them open, in the event they are needed. Then we give our military 25% of the savings so they can improve upon defenses in an around the U.S. and its territories, leaving us with 50% of the savings to fund said program.
Or move to where the water is.
I always wonder when cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix will revert back to desert.
They put up trees in Las Vegas that suck up mega gallons, no one thought of this factor, just wanted plam trees.
How many golf courses have been built in the same time frame.
Stop letting developers build more homes to encourage more people to move there, Las Vegas population has more than doubled in size in the last 30 years and there's no signs of stopping it. They're doing nothing to stop the reservoir from dropping instead they're drilling and finding more ways to extract water from it
How many people in these desert cities have back yard swimming pools. In phoenix it is like almost everyone.
Why aren't they piping water from lake superior or the Mississippi? Or desalination plants up the west coast? They can pipe oil from Canada to the gulf of Mexico.
If you move to a place with no natural water, you deserve to dry up like beef jerkey!
Grass doesn't belong here even for recreating IMO.
I'm pretty sure water-intensive crops that shouldn't be grown in the desert to begin with are the biggest problem though.
Its called stop building not landscaping.
Exodus coming soon smh. WTH is going to happen to everyone if we run out of water. They don’t even seem like they’re taking it seriously. They keep building . Why don’t they solve the water crisis first. Makes no sense.
it sits dormant until it rains. then it grows again.
you don't need to rip it out, just let it live naturally.
unless you concrete everything and collect all storm drain runoff.
IT'S NOT NATURAL. Grass does not grow in the desert! There are plenty of beautiful desert plants that will do great to beautify yards.
@@MrMountainchris
if it rains enough where you are at to keep the roots, it'll keep dirt from flowing away.
otherwise, put gravel down.
Golf Courses around the U.S. suck up around approximately 2.08 billion gallons of water per day for irrigation. That's about 130,000 gallons per day per course, according to the golf industry.Jun 18, 2015
but just the Almond crop alone in just calif last year took a trillion gallons to grow.
and most almonds are just shipped to Asia because they like little almond packets in their gift bags. Factor in Walnuts, alfalfa, fruits and other nuts and its not sustainable. Golf courses and pools are nothing in the grand scheme.
Big Agriculture uses 80% of the water used in the west.
@@shellysmith1037 This is very true Shelly, Big Ag does consume a lot of water, though golf courses are a complete drain on the environment, sustainable farming is not. The secretary of the interior needs a wake up call, along with a couple other agencies, how do you top big money lobbyists to get regulations changed.
Well I’m watering my grass for a couple of hours today
Has Vegas turned off all of the water fountains?
well now they need to do something to keep the dust dirt from flowing around causing issues
That's called moving out East...