they fixed incomes folks and middle class families are going to pay this price. this is why we are loosing many locals that were here for years and years to much building not enough water for future this is a valley a desert.
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They should sell their houses, stop paying taxes in these counties and gtfo. Let these counties regret missing out on the tax money. Go buy in a county and state that appreciates the tax revenue and doesnt out people from using amenities they have a legal right to as well as an expectation to.
Millions of gallons of water? WHAT are you doing using MILLIONS of gallons of water in a residence? I was expecting to see hotels/casinos. No one of sound mind would try to have greenery in the desert 🙄🤯
It's a status symbol, I saw a program about 15 years back that talked about all of this happening. It was supposed to start around 2030, but I guess they decided to start early 😳
To be fair, if they have bigger homes they can use more water but not at 100 times the average. I would increase to a dollar a gallon after certain 100,000 gallon per month is used. If the super rich think they can afford it then let them pay of it.
Not tryna say your wrong but your wrong. Listen the average person uses around 500 gallons of water a day so 5000 gallons of water a day is insane but it's not everyday it's once a year water usage like when they replace the water in their pools after it goes stagnate that makes their water usage so high. It's not like they are using an insane amounts every single day. The easiest way to fix this is to require all pools to use sea water instead of running fresh water and boom guess what their water usage will be less than the average person. Hell most of the time saltwater or seawater usage is counted in these statistics.
Also the water in plants and stuff is stupid it's like bro you can use literally any type of water for that so this whole you need to use fresh water is stupid. Also if you don't use up all of your water allowance you lose your water usage permissions forcing them to use excessive water use. It's the same for the farmers to
Thats not the issue. The water resource is limited and so once theres almost no water left, you’ll have nothing while they can still pay for their grass lawn and gigantic swimming pool they never use.
Says the guy who never signed the front of a check in his life! "The rich" is who exactly? Because every time someone wants to stick it to them, they end up gauging the little guy while the big boys go on.
Why weren’t you worried about this before it became a problem? I live in the desert and we have been in a drought ( 2.7” of rain in the past 12 months) for the past 18 months our normal yearly average is 19” and even in a normal year we conserve because we know dry years will come.
@@BLMacab you seditionist morons are absolutely hilarious. the democrats have been saying for years that GD global warming was going to be reaching a catastrophic peak, and that in years to come we're going to reach an irreversible point, and once again the seditionist republicans said that the democrats were fear mongering.
Of course not, people with money will pay to play and they already understand that. It's to subsidize other things for example the rich built the interstate system through the increased tax rate of the rich. Anyone in the mid 50s who made over 200k/yr was taxed at 91% before write-offs ect. That money funded the interstate system and other infrastructure projects
The median household in vegas uses ZERO water because it’s all recycled. You don’t need to tax anyone other than the 10-20 rich mansion owners who generate 99% of the water waste.
Honestly I agree with the fine to the top users. It's good and might help with funding water district projects. If they however use this as an excuse to raise the prices on normal people then it will affect a lot of people negatively which it sounds like they will do. The truth is Vegas it's not your fault lakemead is going down. We only use 4% of its water from the dam and we rely on its power heavily, but the Las Vegas water system is so Sophisticated out of all the water we use over 90% of that goes back into the lake. What I'm trying to say is lake mead is going to dry up. It's mainly California's fault. They use over 51% of the water and with this they are basically going to doom the west. It's like the climate change debate. Vegas can cut back all we want but we are such a small part of the problem that it won't make a difference. The only hope we have is one of these billionaires make an advanced megadesalinization plant for California so they can stop taking the water from other states like a parasite. That's not gonna happen though they got there sights on the stars too much.
Just fyi: Vegas sits on top of a large fresh water underground natural reservoir. Can't be used. Military was sloppy with nuclear bomb testing and now its radioactive. Oops.
You don’t need a change in mindset. Its your local government that needs to impose the law. There is no point in charging more or taxing more those who can afford to pay it anyway. Just limit the tap use. That’s where we’re all headed anyway. Limit usage per household period. Because the scary part in all this is we all go thirsty. We will only live 3 days without water.
Californians are so stupid they’ve figured out how to run out of water on a planet that’s 70% covered in it, why am I not surprised. Desalinate your massive coastline and bing bang boom, you’ve got unlimited freshwater. And don’t give me some line about how “expensive” that is, California gets ridiculous amounts of federal money for a bunch of BS social justice garbage nobody needs. Quit wasting your tax dollars and buy what you need, instead of demanding wealthy people buy you everything for free Bc you don’t want to work for it.
I mean 10 million gallons is a lot, yeah. I'm not anti-rich people. There's room in our landscaping to reduce the amount used outside and still have trees.
Stop watering the grass in city parks schools, golf courses and stop watering the dirt on baseball fields for half an hour. We’re all going to die from peoples ignorance, this government needs to wake up and take care of this mattter
Private property doesn't mean you can take and use Public Resources past your necessity and if it happens your property should be seized if after notice the person doesn't reduce their use.
I can't imagine how even a home of the most wealthy would use that much water. An average pool holds maybe 20,000 gallons. . Funny how David Copperfields house disappeared from the top of the list. Disappeared. Lol
Municiple water is just recycled toilet water. Who are these fools trying to kidd? The amount of fresh watered added to the toilet water is minuscule. You pay for the same thing again and again.
When I moved to Vegas in 1990..thetre was concern over water...early 90s trying to encourage people to desert pandscape,and scheduling opposite side of offices street watering...2022..how many more thousands of room hotels and golf courses and giant homes ? And still building...So happy I left years ago...I'm not sorry for anyone who,knowingly abuses the fragile desert..Greed has destroyed Vegas every way possible....
I have personally and physically been to the 1 million gallon water storage Reservoir at Yucca Mountain. not that big , but it is deep, it wouldn't be hard for these rich people to build an underground reservoir with 1 million gallons of water.
Charging the rich more for water while watching the water resources dwindle to nothing is an extremely stupid solution. How about cut them off instead, before all the water is gone? Get a brain!
I used to work for that HOA. The sultan has a whole compound within the guarded gates with his own guarded gates. He doesn't even live in the country which is funny.
California might be the top user but only bc there are a ton of people in it and certainly there are plenty of users within CA doing the same bullsh!t waste. You can't just blame shift a whole state. What's done is done. The water system/agencies were bought and developed and shared long ago by the states and feds and the policies need to be changed from the bottom all the way up.
Actually you can blame California. You should read the charter on water usage. Cali really screwed Nevada long term. But that's cause at the time Nevada was very unpopulated. But even so, Cali's water usage is insane.
California is a top water user because the state grows a good deal of the nations produce, not because there’s a ton of people. There are few places in the country that don’t get blizzards, hurricanes, tornados, and are sunny the majority of the year. When California stops getting water, everyone will feel the affects.
@@Cmorrison626 that's a good point as well. In the end you can really just say it's complicated. People just love to crap on CA. And I agree there's a ton of issues but it can be shiny perfect here and people are still gonna hate.
Imagine watching the news and suddenly seeing a drone or plane was flying over your house with your name talking about you using the most water in the city lol
My household (2 adults and 2 dogs) wastes about 20,000 gallons a year….we have a front and backyard full of drought tolerant lush vegetation. What really makes a difference is having water saving faucets, shower heads and toilets. We all need to do our part!
You may not be aware, but over 95% of the water from your faucets shower heads and toilets is not wasted, it's recycled and goes straight back to the lake. It's only outdoor watering that is forever wasted. In the thought that if everyone in Vegas reduced water consumption is going to make a damn difference at all, that's a complete delusion from the facts. All of Nevada doesn't even use 1.8% of Lake Mead and they never have used even close to their allocation. Most of the wasted water goes to Growing Alfalfa which is exported to Saudi Arabia. Don't you think we should be focusing on that instead of guilt tripping people over faucets and toilets?
@@do9138 I'll worry about doing more when they stop flooding the Alfalfa fields and selling it all to Saudi Arabia. That's where most of the water goes. That and also almonds. Do you think we can go without almonds for a while?
So your position is to ignore the massive water waste of the wealthy and their Corporations and focus on the People's water austerity? I applaud any water saving you're doing, but it's within a corrupted context. ☮️
The plush high rise building in Las Vegas. SNWA will charge more and more and more. Soon your water bill will be hundreds. Never mind that water belongs to us all.
CONSERVATION!!! Raising the cost of water will NOT help the shortage issue. When the water runs out [and it will!], try drinking sand and rocks. Remove all permits for water features, including the Strip. I removed all the lawn in my place in Henderson, went with a "Southwestern Motiff" and saved a BUNDLE on water. Why??? Because I knew the water would run out eventually and I like to LIVE!!!!! You can only go 3 days without water!
More like you and fellow residents will reap what they have sown. When the water dries up they will move. Local poorer residents will not likely be able to sell a home or get their equity back.
It's stimple just switch what water is being used and rub a pipeline from the ocean. For pools and stuff use salt water and force the cost of purifying that water to the I individuals. And only allow tap water and such to be fresh water from lake Mead. That's a pretty good permanent solution.
Cut the water of those who are using so much and see how it would feel to have no water. Who gives a damn if they flaunt their money and believe they are entitled.
Noooo no no see these are the people who need to be held accountable TODAY. More water consumption in one month than a regular family in one year? Absolutely outrageous c'mon people.
I have a solution: allotments. Each resident is allowed an allotment of water. The total water allotment is what is allowed to be removed from the reservoir divided equally among the residents (right down to the babies). The residents can assign their water allotment rights anywhere they want. So let the bidding begin. If a golf course wants water they can offer a bid for someone's allotment but if a hotel wants water they too can bid. Collectives can be established. Each individual may not have enough water to make a difference but if you save some of your water allotment you can throw in with your neighbors and help fill the community pool for the kids... or sell at an extremely high rate to a business.
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Why didn’t the governors, City managers, state Officials throughout the years do this???? Conserving water should have been done back in the 70s!!! Here where I live in Colorado we have to conserve our water and our water comes from the Colorado river!! Why in the hell did they wait until Lake Mead & and Lake Powell are almost dry? Whoever been running Las Vegas sure in the hell does not know what they’re doing!!!! So all these years the rich and famous are allowed to water their lawns waste water on Water fountains, pools etc. why everyone else has to conserve!!! This doesn’t make any sense there was plenty of time to do this back in the 70s 80s 90s and now it’s kind of too late!! Colorado needs to cut off their water To all surrounding states we need to build a Damn & keep our water here!!! Go find your own water somewhere else like I said we have to conserve our water our water bills have increased!!! Take out all grasses stop building big gigantic casinos and big mansions!!!!
I dont get it. Why dont the water district use marginal penalty on these types of residents? Set a limit per house hold so say everyone gets 120k a year and every 12k you do over is an additional $10 charge. 24k is $100 and so on. Base on my assessment, the 13M gallon resident would have to pay $10M a year in penalty.
First of all, these are people who have large estates and therefore, will use more water than the average person. Second of all, they have the resources to pay for it. Raising their rates (and by extension OUR rates) is unfair and unjust. What NV should be doing is cutting off CA because they could be building desalinization plant and make their own water. The salt could probably be used to put on icy roads in the wintertime.
@@cdpgbc-mw2kz Excuse me, but who are you to tell me what to do with MY property and MY money?? I don't have a problem with xeriscaping, but as they claimed in the story, that model house was a water waster despite that. My ideas make a whole lot more sense.
@@MegaMagicdog Welcome to reality. You are already told what to do with your property, what you can build, what building is permitted, codes, set backs, square footage, etc. So the idea that it is "your property" needs to taken in context. With respect to your money, whatever floats your boat, but again, there are certain things which money can not legally buy. Water will be an ongoing scarce resource if you live in the South West USA. It already is. If water was not diverted and dammed, it would essentially be mostly uninhabitable. I understand your idea and it makes sense but people need to wake up and realize that there will be further constraints.
They have to get through to people somehow. Apparently “there’s not enough water for us all to survive on” is not enough to motivate a change that would benefit millions of strangers. But given society’s response to Covid, I’m not surprised by any of this. “I can do whatever I want, so I will do whatever I want. 🤬 everyone else.” It’s really childish.
@@Cmorrison626 Childish is someone accusing someone of killing grandma because they choose to live their lives normally. This is Gruesome Newsome's fault in not developing desalinization plants and finding ways to keep all that rain runoff from going into the sea. I shouldn't have to pay a fortune for what little I need because some overstuffed bureaucrat (and his Aunt Nancy) with big estates of their own refuse to solve the problem at hand.
On top of Vegas being the most innovative and efficient on water use, Vegas also uses way less than we are allotted. So why would we have to be more regulated? All the water in vEgas are recycled through Lake Mead so we practically waste zero water.
@@adrian33161 there’s definitely lots of politicians involved pushing their agenda and corruption everywhere and it’s sad the media are totally involved in the corruption so it’s hard to just believe what we see in the news. We use way less water than 1 even 2 decades ago even though we have much more population and they dare regulate us more? They’re just using us as an example, it’s ridiculous.
Just now? Seriously? This should have been decades ago. How about golf courses? They're just now working on charging rich people for waisting water!? That's stupid.
This is not even a significant cause of Water waste. The vast majority is wasted to grow alfalfa outside of Nevada which is sold to Saudi Arabia for their racehorses. Why don't we look at the real problem instead of listening to this BS and brainwashing people to blame the rich. Yes blame the rich but blame the rich who are getting rich off of selling Alfalfa to the rich Saudis for their Rich racehorses. Why doesn't anyone talk about that?
"The average home uses 342 gallons / day" that alone is ridiculous but then some rich Arab is going through 36,000 gallons / day!! Imagine the size of the water main feeding that place. Charging more is not the answer, money can't fill the reservoirs so restriction is the only option & if you go over your allowance it gets shut off! What is the breakdown of an average house going through 342 / day? 5 gal x3 people for a shower, 2 gal x3 for a dump, 5 gal for food & cleanup but everybody eats out, everybody drinks bottled water but 1/2 for the pets, where the hell is the other 315 gallons going????
I think you might need to reevaluate your numbers. I don't know any 1rst world person that only uses 5 gallons of water for a shower unless they're camping.
The rich people do not care. They have the mindset rules do not apply to them and even if it did, they can afford to pay the penalties. The only solution is to cut off water supply completely at repeat violators homes.
There are more than 50 golf courses in the Las Vegas area. The average water use for EACH golf course is 1,000,000 gallons daily. They are supposed to use reclaimed water but many use ground or other water. Add that up.
How many people in Nevada and Arizona use underground cisterns and rain barrels to collect rain from down spouts (during regular weather)? And use this/store it, year round?
Why now are they thinking of an excessive use charge? This issue has been on the table for two or three years! I wonder if anything will actual happen.
to be fair, there is a such thing as water recycling. basically reusing greywater for toilet water then reusing wastewater and separating it for the plants outside. im more surprised Nevada isn't enforcing such water conservation measures like water recycling.
here's a idea . with all these new houses going up , build them with gray water tanks in the ground , where all the water goes except toilet water, the water in the tanks can be used for watering plants and cleaning out side like spraying off sidewalks and driveways . PS you can use gray water to flush the toilet too. just saying . money will not solve this problem.
And nothing will EVER happen to any of them.
Lol agreed, they better start to curb the usage.
they fixed incomes folks and middle class families are going to pay this price. this is why we are loosing many locals that were here for years and years to much building not enough water for future this is a valley a desert.
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Because they Own everything. That is the "why".
Get ready to pay a lot more for water💵💵
These extreme water wasters should have their supply cut off after a certain point.
That's obvious. Maybe look into why they're getting away with it. Who makes that decision? How much do they have in to be bank?
Like that movie "Total Recall", only it was the Owners who cut off the air to all the poor people. The owners will never punish themselves. 🙄
They should sell their houses, stop paying taxes in these counties and gtfo. Let these counties regret missing out on the tax money. Go buy in a county and state that appreciates the tax revenue and doesnt out people from using amenities they have a legal right to as well as an expectation to.
This kind of investigative journalism should be done by more local news stations. Props to your team.
Actually I remember this was the same news last year too… So basically nothing has been done yet.
And nothing will change
People shouldn’t vote for republicans who don’t believe in regulation,..
Millions of gallons of water? WHAT are you doing using MILLIONS of gallons of water in a residence? I was expecting to see hotels/casinos. No one of sound mind would try to have greenery in the desert 🙄🤯
It's a status symbol, I saw a program about 15 years back that talked about all of this happening. It was supposed to start around 2030, but I guess they decided to start early 😳
It’s all pools and large yards.
To be fair, if they have bigger homes they can use more water but not at 100 times the average. I would increase to a dollar a gallon after certain 100,000 gallon per month is used. If the super rich think they can afford it then let them pay of it.
Not tryna say your wrong but your wrong. Listen the average person uses around 500 gallons of water a day so 5000 gallons of water a day is insane but it's not everyday it's once a year water usage like when they replace the water in their pools after it goes stagnate that makes their water usage so high. It's not like they are using an insane amounts every single day. The easiest way to fix this is to require all pools to use sea water instead of running fresh water and boom guess what their water usage will be less than the average person. Hell most of the time saltwater or seawater usage is counted in these statistics.
Also the water in plants and stuff is stupid it's like bro you can use literally any type of water for that so this whole you need to use fresh water is stupid. Also if you don't use up all of your water allowance you lose your water usage permissions forcing them to use excessive water use. It's the same for the farmers to
@@likeablecloud2454 , he must be rich
Just because people can afford to pay, doesn't mean they should be allowed to use more water. It's a water shortage, not a money shortage.
Thats not the issue. The water resource is limited and so once theres almost no water left, you’ll have nothing while they can still pay for their grass lawn and gigantic swimming pool they never use.
To help conserve water, the rate should be exponentially incremental to amount consumed. Make the rich subsidise the system.
Nice idea
After 125,000 per year the rate should be 3x or 4x higher
The wealthy should definitely pay exponentially far more for their water usage…..make them feel the pain that ordinary citizens feel!
Screw the rich
Says the guy who never signed the front of a check in his life! "The rich" is who exactly? Because every time someone wants to stick it to them, they end up gauging the little guy while the big boys go on.
The rich DGAF. They will continue using all that water…. They don’t care
Why weren’t you worried about this before it became a problem? I live in the desert and we have been in a drought ( 2.7” of rain in the past 12 months) for the past 18 months our normal yearly average is 19” and even in a normal year we conserve because we know dry years will come.
democrats told republicans naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh you watch too much fox new
Plenty of water UNDERGROUND.
You LIVE in a desert ? Dah
@@BLMacab you seditionist morons are absolutely hilarious. the democrats have been saying for years that GD global warming was going to be reaching a catastrophic peak, and that in years to come we're going to reach an irreversible point, and once again the seditionist republicans said that the democrats were fear mongering.
@@dirgesinthedark5637 No there isn't. It is being wasted.
charging these people extra isn't going to stop them, people this rich can afford it.
Of course not, people with money will pay to play and they already understand that. It's to subsidize other things for example the rich built the interstate system through the increased tax rate of the rich. Anyone in the mid 50s who made over 200k/yr was taxed at 91% before write-offs ect. That money funded the interstate system and other infrastructure projects
And regardless of how much money is charged, water can't just be produced out of no where.
Scale the charge per gallon of water used, like the income tax rate. Say if it's over 2x the average household, charge them $100 a gallon.
The median household in vegas uses ZERO water because it’s all recycled. You don’t need to tax anyone other than the 10-20 rich mansion owners who generate 99% of the water waste.
Honestly I agree with the fine to the top users. It's good and might help with funding water district projects. If they however use this as an excuse to raise the prices on normal people then it will affect a lot of people negatively which it sounds like they will do. The truth is Vegas it's not your fault lakemead is going down. We only use 4% of its water from the dam and we rely on its power heavily, but the Las Vegas water system is so Sophisticated out of all the water we use over 90% of that goes back into the lake.
What I'm trying to say is lake mead is going to dry up. It's mainly California's fault. They use over 51% of the water and with this they are basically going to doom the west.
It's like the climate change debate. Vegas can cut back all we want but we are such a small part of the problem that it won't make a difference. The only hope we have is one of these billionaires make an advanced megadesalinization plant for California so they can stop taking the water from other states like a parasite. That's not gonna happen though they got there sights on the stars too much.
Just fyi:
Vegas sits on top of a large fresh water underground natural reservoir.
Can't be used.
Military was sloppy with nuclear bomb testing and now its radioactive.
Oops.
California is a parasitic cancer.
You don’t need a change in mindset. Its your local government that needs to impose the law. There is no point in charging more or taxing more those who can afford to pay it anyway. Just limit the tap use. That’s where we’re all headed anyway. Limit usage per household period. Because the scary part in all this is we all go thirsty. We will only live 3 days without water.
Lol dude stfu...nobody is going thirsty and dying...cut the overdramatic bullsh*t out. You clearly said this dumb ignorant bs to score likes🙄.
Exactly. Just shut off the water to their homes when it reaches a certain point.
Precisely. If they want all the water then they can go buy a country of their own and collect that country’s water.
Californians are so stupid they’ve figured out how to run out of water on a planet that’s 70% covered in it, why am I not surprised.
Desalinate your massive coastline and bing bang boom, you’ve got unlimited freshwater. And don’t give me some line about how “expensive” that is, California gets ridiculous amounts of federal money for a bunch of BS social justice garbage nobody needs.
Quit wasting your tax dollars and buy what you need, instead of demanding wealthy people buy you everything for free Bc you don’t want to work for it.
I mean 10 million gallons is a lot, yeah. I'm not anti-rich people. There's room in our landscaping to reduce the amount used outside and still have trees.
Stop watering the grass in city parks schools, golf courses and stop watering the dirt on baseball fields for half an hour. We’re all going to die from peoples ignorance, this government needs to wake up and take care of this mattter
You're right. I've never seen a golf course brown and dried up 😏
The top water users out of Lake Mead are California and Arizona. An mostly because they want to farm crops out in the desert.
Price them exponentially…each resident get a quota….if used 2x of quota…charge 100x price….if use 3x, charge 1000x
they say usage over 75 times more the average household, Dudes house is 75 times bigger than mine!
You can’t charge your way to saving water. You have to imprison the property owner. Raising prices will hurt the poor
that's why you pro-rate it.. durp.
Imprison the property owner ?? Dear God you fucking retards casting the first stones have no idea what this is going to do to you
Private property doesn't mean you can take and use Public Resources past your necessity and if it happens your property should be seized if after notice the person doesn't reduce their use.
I can't imagine how even a home of the most wealthy would use that much water. An average pool holds maybe 20,000 gallons. .
Funny how David Copperfields house disappeared from the top of the list. Disappeared. Lol
That spokesman for the SNWA is a clown he just tells you what you pepole want to hear clown.
It's easy...shut off the water to those homes after a certain set amount each day. That is outrageous water use.
Oh Yeah!!kool
Municiple water is just recycled toilet water. Who are these fools trying to kidd? The amount of fresh watered added to the toilet water is minuscule. You pay for the same thing again and again.
When I moved to Vegas in 1990..thetre was concern over water...early 90s trying to encourage people to desert pandscape,and scheduling opposite side of offices street watering...2022..how many more thousands of room hotels and golf courses and giant homes ? And still building...So happy I left years ago...I'm not sorry for anyone who,knowingly abuses the fragile desert..Greed has destroyed Vegas every way possible....
Back in the 70's most people new LV was going to run out of water. Just ask the Water Authority. JMHO
I have personally and physically been to the 1 million gallon water storage Reservoir at Yucca Mountain. not that big , but it is deep, it wouldn't be hard for these rich people to build an underground reservoir with 1 million gallons of water.
Charging the rich more for water while watching the water resources dwindle to nothing is an extremely stupid solution. How about cut them off instead, before all the water is gone? Get a brain!
@Las Vegas Elite Why? Please stop wasting water. It's highly valuable to everything that lives.
YES!! thats the answer ..we need david copperfield to magically produce lake meads water!!
Whoa whoa #1 is a Sultans extra palace? Ration that joint asap.
I used to work for that HOA. The sultan has a whole compound within the guarded gates with his own guarded gates. He doesn't even live in the country which is funny.
So Vegas is just now going to a tiered system for water billing?? Really?? How long has the drought been going on in the American Southwest?
All the people that tell us to conserve energy are the ones using the most
California might be the top user but only bc there are a ton of people in it and certainly there are plenty of users within CA doing the same bullsh!t waste. You can't just blame shift a whole state. What's done is done. The water system/agencies were bought and developed and shared long ago by the states and feds and the policies need to be changed from the bottom all the way up.
Actually you can blame California. You should read the charter on water usage. Cali really screwed Nevada long term. But that's cause at the time Nevada was very unpopulated. But even so, Cali's water usage is insane.
California needs a good 15.0 magnitude quake and shake the SOB until it all goes into the Pacific. It is an entire WASTELAND.
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California is a top water user because the state grows a good deal of the nations produce, not because there’s a ton of people. There are few places in the country that don’t get blizzards, hurricanes, tornados, and are sunny the majority of the year. When California stops getting water, everyone will feel the affects.
@@Cmorrison626 that's a good point as well. In the end you can really just say it's complicated. People just love to crap on CA. And I agree there's a ton of issues but it can be shiny perfect here and people are still gonna hate.
Imagine watching the news and suddenly seeing a drone or plane was flying over your house with your name talking about you using the most water in the city lol
Great reporting
I don't know if the water company has heard of pipe lines , there are locations in Nevada that has springs fairly close to Vegas
Commies are about controlling people, not fixing problems.
My household (2 adults and 2 dogs) wastes about 20,000 gallons a year….we have a front and backyard full of drought tolerant lush vegetation. What really makes a difference is having water saving faucets, shower heads and toilets.
We all need to do our part!
I can't get enough water to flush my toilet. I don't water ANYTHING. I'll worry about doing more when Bellagio turns off its fountains.
You may not be aware, but over 95% of the water from your faucets shower heads and toilets is not wasted, it's recycled and goes straight back to the lake. It's only outdoor watering that is forever wasted. In the thought that if everyone in Vegas reduced water consumption is going to make a damn difference at all, that's a complete delusion from the facts. All of Nevada doesn't even use 1.8% of Lake Mead and they never have used even close to their allocation. Most of the wasted water goes to Growing Alfalfa which is exported to Saudi Arabia. Don't you think we should be focusing on that instead of guilt tripping people over faucets and toilets?
@@do9138 I'll worry about doing more when they stop flooding the Alfalfa fields and selling it all to Saudi Arabia. That's where most of the water goes. That and also almonds. Do you think we can go without almonds for a while?
@@7x779 OP is a troll
So your position is to ignore the massive water waste of the wealthy and their Corporations and focus on the People's water austerity? I applaud any water saving you're doing, but it's within a corrupted context. ☮️
Golf courses are NOT NECESSARY and each household doesn’t need a pool.
Back in yr 2001 water authorities were buying up ranches for 10 million dollars for their under ground water supply, what ever happened with that .
The plush high rise building in Las Vegas. SNWA will charge more and more and more. Soon your water bill will be hundreds. Never mind that water belongs to us all.
This reminds me of the episode of Portlandia where the mayor of Portland was using the most electricity.
How about putting a 10 year moratorium on building new housing?
CONSERVATION!!! Raising the cost of water will NOT help the shortage issue. When the water runs out [and it will!], try drinking sand and rocks. Remove all permits for water features, including the Strip. I removed all the lawn in my place in Henderson, went with a "Southwestern Motiff" and saved a BUNDLE on water. Why??? Because I knew the water would run out eventually and I like to LIVE!!!!! You can only go 3 days without water!
Shameful and unnecessary abuse of water! They will find that you reap what you sow
More like you and fellow residents will reap what they have sown. When the water dries up they will move. Local poorer residents will not likely be able to sell a home or get their equity back.
What is a possible permanent solution? Restrictions and fines only seem to be of a temporary resolve
It's stimple just switch what water is being used and rub a pipeline from the ocean. For pools and stuff use salt water and force the cost of purifying that water to the I individuals. And only allow tap water and such to be fresh water from lake Mead. That's a pretty good permanent solution.
Cut the water of those who are using so much and see how it would feel to have no water. Who gives a damn if they flaunt their money and believe they are entitled.
Good job in highlighting these selfish people.
All water should be immediately cut to these places until they draw up a detailed plan about how they are going to plan to use less water
If you do not shut their water OFF,
nothing matters.
Finally someone holding to account THE WEALTHY!
NOW LET'S FINE THEM AT A HIGHER RATE TOO!
They need to start talking about Arizona and California.
They account for like 75% of water usage out of Lake mead.
Rich folks don’t care what you charge them.
No amount of saving water is going to stop the drought from happening. If it doesn't rain it will disappear
Really good video , kept me interested
Noooo no no see these are the people who need to be held accountable TODAY. More water consumption in one month than a regular family in one year? Absolutely outrageous c'mon people.
I have a solution: allotments. Each resident is allowed an allotment of water. The total water allotment is what is allowed to be removed from the reservoir divided equally among the residents (right down to the babies). The residents can assign their water allotment rights anywhere they want. So let the bidding begin. If a golf course wants water they can offer a bid for someone's allotment but if a hotel wants water they too can bid. Collectives can be established. Each individual may not have enough water to make a difference but if you save some of your water allotment you can throw in with your neighbors and help fill the community pool for the kids... or sell at an extremely high rate to a business.
this is a valley a desert way to much building the past few years and more on the way .yet we are short on water now much confusion about this.
Natalia bellican I'm really impressed by what you wrote and personality. I also admire your good sense of humor here. I don't normally write in the comment section, but I think you deserve this complement....I'd like to be your friend if you don't mind, how are you doing today?
in the 80s they cut off water every other days and you got fines for grass being watered !
Thank you Darcy!
Just blame the rich but still charge the poor
How in the hell are they using 10+ million gallons of water?!???!? Seriously what are they doing?!???
Exporting it to sell in Arizona?! JK
Why didn’t the governors, City managers, state Officials throughout the years do this???? Conserving water should have been done back in the 70s!!! Here where I live in Colorado we have to conserve our water and our water comes from the Colorado river!! Why in the hell did they wait until Lake Mead & and Lake Powell are almost dry? Whoever been running Las Vegas sure in the hell does not know what they’re doing!!!! So all these years the rich and famous are allowed to water their lawns waste water on Water fountains, pools etc. why everyone else has to conserve!!! This doesn’t make any sense there was plenty of time to do this back in the 70s 80s 90s and now it’s kind of too late!! Colorado needs to cut off their water To all surrounding states we need to build a Damn & keep our water here!!! Go find your own water somewhere else like I said we have to conserve our water our water bills have increased!!! Take out all grasses stop building big gigantic casinos and big mansions!!!!
The sad thing is these people don't even live in their residence more than a few months a year.
Wonder if southern California was on that list.
I dont get it. Why dont the water district use marginal penalty on these types of residents? Set a limit per house hold so say everyone gets 120k a year and every 12k you do over is an additional $10 charge. 24k is $100 and so on. Base on my assessment, the 13M gallon resident would have to pay $10M a year in penalty.
The wealthy.. "Would it help if we pizz on the heads of the poor to make up for our gluttony?" "Kidding. Hahaha, we're already doing that!"
And what is California doing to cut back?
We built a desalination plant😀
@@beatrixbrennan1545 you would have to build at least a dozen or more, but California is a take all give nothing state.
@@airrod283 I know we would need many more as the one we have only services around 50k customers and we have 4 million!
This is rediculous, these people pay for the water they use plain and simple. This seems to be the new normal, shame people who are well off.
Damn. It is the Streaming Wars
First of all, these are people who have large estates and therefore, will use more water than the average person. Second of all, they have the resources to pay for it. Raising their rates (and by extension OUR rates) is unfair and unjust. What NV should be doing is cutting off CA because they could be building desalinization plant and make their own water. The salt could probably be used to put on icy roads in the wintertime.
Do not choose to have a large, lush green estate in a desert. It is stupidity, plain and simple.
@@cdpgbc-mw2kz Excuse me, but who are you to tell me what to do with MY property and MY money?? I don't have a problem with xeriscaping, but as they claimed in the story, that model house was a water waster despite that. My ideas make a whole lot more sense.
@@MegaMagicdog Welcome to reality. You are already told what to do with your property, what you can build, what building is permitted, codes, set backs, square footage, etc. So the idea that it is "your property" needs to taken in context. With respect to your money, whatever floats your boat, but again, there are certain things which money can not legally buy. Water will be an ongoing scarce resource if you live in the South West USA. It already is. If water was not diverted and dammed, it would essentially be mostly uninhabitable. I understand your idea and it makes sense but people need to wake up and realize that there will be further constraints.
They have to get through to people somehow. Apparently “there’s not enough water for us all to survive on” is not enough to motivate a change that would benefit millions of strangers. But given society’s response to Covid, I’m not surprised by any of this. “I can do whatever I want, so I will do whatever I want. 🤬 everyone else.” It’s really childish.
@@Cmorrison626 Childish is someone accusing someone of killing grandma because they choose to live their lives normally. This is Gruesome Newsome's fault in not developing desalinization plants and finding ways to keep all that rain runoff from going into the sea. I shouldn't have to pay a fortune for what little I need because some overstuffed bureaucrat (and his Aunt Nancy) with big estates of their own refuse to solve the problem at hand.
They also need to install water restrictors on these people.
so the Sultan of Brunei's plot of land uses the most water? Brunei is a country is south Asia, wtf
Rich people sure are talented of sucking away all the good out of their surroundings for their never ending self interest
On top of Vegas being the most innovative and efficient on water use, Vegas also uses way less than we are allotted. So why would we have to be more regulated? All the water in vEgas are recycled through Lake Mead so we practically waste zero water.
Exactly. I read an article about a month ago stating how Nevada was the most efficient user of water and now this…
@@adrian33161 there’s definitely lots of politicians involved pushing their agenda and corruption everywhere and it’s sad the media are totally involved in the corruption so it’s hard to just believe what we see in the news. We use way less water than 1 even 2 decades ago even though we have much more population and they dare regulate us more? They’re just using us as an example, it’s ridiculous.
Come on guys, if we just shower once a week and stop drinking water, the rich can keep their lush gardens.
The City should put zoning in place to limit SF of homes and open green space.
This is a issue also sending a ton to Cali.
How about limiting their water usage??? They don't care how much it is, they are rich. Making money won't bring the water back!
charge them $10 per gallon over 1M gallons usage. They'll stop their insane behavior
Just now? Seriously? This should have been decades ago. How about golf courses? They're just now working on charging rich people for waisting water!? That's stupid.
This is not even a significant cause of Water waste. The vast majority is wasted to grow alfalfa outside of Nevada which is sold to Saudi Arabia for their racehorses. Why don't we look at the real problem instead of listening to this BS and brainwashing people to blame the rich. Yes blame the rich but blame the rich who are getting rich off of selling Alfalfa to the rich Saudis for their Rich racehorses. Why doesn't anyone talk about that?
Mike growing that weed
"The average home uses 342 gallons / day" that alone is ridiculous but then some rich Arab is going through 36,000 gallons / day!! Imagine the size of the water main feeding that place. Charging more is not the answer, money can't fill the reservoirs so restriction is the only option & if you go over your allowance it gets shut off! What is the breakdown of an average house going through 342 / day? 5 gal x3 people for a shower, 2 gal x3 for a dump, 5 gal for food & cleanup but everybody eats out, everybody drinks bottled water but 1/2 for the pets, where the hell is the other 315 gallons going????
I think you might need to reevaluate your numbers. I don't know any 1rst world person that only uses 5 gallons of water for a shower unless they're camping.
You can fine them and charge them all you want for the water they use but that won't bring it back. Once it's all gone, it's gone
Excess tax makes no difference, they can afford it and it will not give you more water, so it doesn't fix the issue.
The rich people do not care. They have the mindset rules do not apply to them and even if it did, they can afford to pay the penalties. The only solution is to cut off water supply completely at repeat violators homes.
Keep up the good work.
Encourage Pool owners to cover their pool when not in use both for safety as well as to reduce evaporation
OMG those rich people are a bunch of hypocrites.
I hope you just didn’t figure that out - it’s always been that way.
@@dynodin81
The level of their arrogance is unbelievable. Same goes for all the climate warriors flying around in private jets polluting our planet.
There are more than 50 golf courses in the Las Vegas area. The average water use for EACH golf course is 1,000,000 gallons daily. They are supposed to use reclaimed water but many use ground or other water. Add that up.
ah, i thought it was california
Move to the northern gulf coast, it's been raining most of the summer there . The cloudy rain weather is better then the heat too.
"Egregious and excessive use of water that isn't going to be permitted anymore" Better hand on tight for what comes next..
How many people in Nevada and Arizona use underground cisterns and rain barrels to collect rain from down spouts (during regular weather)? And use this/store it, year round?
Why now are they thinking of an excessive use charge? This issue has been on the table for two or three years! I wonder if anything will actual happen.
The problem is over population versus available resources.
Wow!
What about obannon drive. #1, a few years ago
*Preparing* to implement ‘excessive use’ charge?? Get on with it, already! These rich people can afford it 🙄
What is the reason for that much water? Because I know it's not for showers
to be fair, there is a such thing as water recycling. basically reusing greywater for toilet water then reusing wastewater and separating it for the plants outside. im more surprised Nevada isn't enforcing such water conservation measures like water recycling.
Take water from the Mississippi River. I am tired of the flooding.
Nevada already recycles water
You got the green in the bank you got the green in your house! $$$$$
All those mansions soon to be for sale!
here's a idea . with all these new houses going up , build them with gray water tanks in the ground , where all the water goes except toilet water, the water in the tanks can be used for watering plants and cleaning out side like spraying off sidewalks and driveways . PS you can use gray water to flush the toilet too. just saying . money will not solve this problem.