You do realize, huge chunks of CA would be just as desolate without Lake Mead. California BUILT THE DAMN THING (no pun intended). If it wasn't for CA's need for fresh water, Las Vegas would not exist.

It still goes back to y'all live in the desert and have no f****** water get some rain

Bingo you cracked the code, they didn't think developers are driven on " Greed " alone!

@ASquadWiper The Ogallala Aquifer happens to be the biggest. Both aquifers are being drained beyond recovery. What’s more important drinking water or swimming pools, farms or water entertainment?

Distillation of sewer water is going to become mandatory if it hasn't already like Singapore has

Ask saudi arabia they know😂

@@rafghani Saudi Arabia desalinates sea water. It's not the same thing.

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Lol. Exactly!!

Exactly

I completely agree

I hate how the rich can use more water while the poor have to use less.

I know that El Paso Texas is not as dry as Las Vegas Nevada but both cities are still in part of a desert so water is essential not optional and it certainly should not go mostly to the rich.

I like desert landscaping and yes one can make it look outstanding.

The rich richer get to water their lawns

Yes Nevada Battle Born!!!!!

So true

If you can afford to be in the fight.

And stupid with Human Greed

Water law is vicious.

Same with Sacramento Ca, Newsom got to get that tax money, Apts going up everywhere

@@dennistaylor5052 Here too in Vegas, Traffic is insane. Massive apartment buildings going up everywhere. Traffic is insane. Migrant housing maybe? My sons gf went to look at an apartment and they wanted 1600 for a one bedroom. Crazy unless you figure they will be paid for with section 8. Not sure who would want to spend 1600 per month or 19,200 per year for a one bedroom apartment.

The 💘 of money is indeed the root.if you look hard enough you can trace $ to evil. Long term: more contractors developing and more people using more water. The builders don't care about future posterity they just want $. "That's their problem not ours"

Same with Arizona

And growing

Who needs truth? We have agendas.

True climate change hasnt reduced the amount of rain falling on Las Vegas... but it HAS reduced the amount of water flowing down the Colorado river. But dont let that get in the way of your agenda.

@@nottiification True climate change happens because of plate tectonics and or continental drift. Which alters ocean currents and wind patterns/jet streams.. The oceans control the planets climate and the sun controls the temperature of the oceans along with shifting magma at the core

@@nottiification , Thank goodness we have you as our stalwart arbiter of truth.

But the underground aquifers **are** drying up due to less rainfall in their collection basins. This means less water farther downstream. Climate change is a real issue that has to be dealt with if our grandchildren are to survive... OTOH, I also **firmly** believe that much of the SW's water problems are also of their own making. LA stole three freaking rivers, West Texas and New Mexico have been damned near at war over water since before the Alamo, and the ENTIRE region cannot support multiple metropolitan zones of 250 thousand + people. The SouthWest mismanaged the land and water resources so they're being hit first, but even in my Pacific NorthWest [where water isn't as much of a problem] we're getting droughts. EVERYBODY has to face this issue.

Itll be shorter than that....

In California alone there are 11 desalination plants with 10 more proposed, don't think for a second Nevada isn't part of that.

Well said!

@@malibustacy3606 There's a down side of that. They figured out when they remove salt from water and pump the discarded water back to the ocean. It's killing the local fish life from extra salted water. It's toxic to fish life.

That wouldn’t work!! It cost too much money and the system we have now is profit driven not what’s better for the people driven.

If the drought that has been mostly ongoing for the last 20 years, will there still be any residents left in Nevada?

It's not dryer it's more people using water.

California gets water from Meade as well, and they have a history of wasting far more water than Nevada.

@@jimlincoln1283 shhhh you will ruin the narrative with you facts, they don’t like that

But what percentage of the big users are really Nevadans?

You're part of the problem if wanted to fill your tub for a soak.

That was my wake-up call 20+ years ago. Today..., water shortages in the Southwest are due to over population. Developers continue to build communities in the desert, pump in water from other areas, and replace vultures with "Flamingos."

@@commonsense6611 I said this when I live in Arizona in the 80s. We took quick showers, not baths. We didn’t wash our car. Yeah, it looked nasty, but so what? I was amazed at how much water we slung to grow in a golf course, so the owners could sell houses. It was all reclaimed water. We saw it rain once in two years, during a dust storm. It literally rained mud. I knew it was overpopulated then, and I’m sure the population has almost doubled since then. We’re literally breeding ourselves to death. People all over the south should rid their yards of st. Augustinegrass, watering that stuff accounts for half of the water use in Florida. And private swimming pools? What a waste. The cities own public pools and so does the YMCA/YWCA.

Look at the home price there 20 years ago and look at it now.

I'm originally from Phoenix (now long since left) and it was said over 35 years ago that there would be a water crisis if the growth at the time wasn't held in check. Nobody listened and now the home building is at an insane pace.

Las Vegas is NOT the issue. California uses the water from Lake Meade.

@@_Coffee4Closers Pretty sure Hoover Dam was conceived and built for California, not Nevada.

Short answer; get rid of some people. Problem solved.

That would make sense if I too lived in Disneyland. Blind fool. I've got a big word for you to research. Conservation efficiency.

Can’t possibly be tied to too many humans. Nah! It’s global climate change. Keep breeding fools.

Clothes lines are considered an eyesore. Lol

@@underthetornado Yeah, realistically; lots of smog and dust, sun fade, etc. HOA's are amusing sometimes like; The Comedy Club or something,....

But clothes lines are a truthful Greenies dream, yet they prohibit them. Something wrong in Bidens Green New Deals.

HOA's should be restricted on what their by-laws should contain and only approved by the governing body that authorized the HOA. Rules which violate an owners Rights should be prohibited.

@@kathyrogers2065 Most trailer parts have HOAs and every subdivision in NV. This is water not clothes. Note biggest users are Trumpers.

Exactly, all the damn concrete is keeping heat in too concentrating the issue by insulation

Thats one of the main purposes of the Springs Reserve, is to teach people how to use native plants for landscaping.

@@CorruptInfinityOfficial Even in cities way up north this is true. I drove courier in Vancouver, BC and the winters would be 5 degrees warmer downtown and 5 degrees cooler in the summer as all was paved concrete or asphalt: a heat sink.

honestly, in todays age I don't see how telling people the truth would change anything. They'll continue to use and eventually just flee once the resources are dry. the hubris of man.

We need to be taxing the hell out of big water users. Tax people for every square foot of grass. I own an acre and when I bought the place, I tore out the grass and put in decorative gravel. I stopped outdoor watering. People need to join me.

@@sarges1712In about three-four years I am calling it. We should have xeriscaped and embraced our desert landscape a long time ago but it is too little too late now. Having to rely on California for water or anything for that matter is even more pointless. Nevadans will get screwed like we always do and these corporations will just put their money elsewhere to protect their investments. I will just have to suck it up and move further Midwest.

@@TheBandit7613 Maybe I am naive, but I thought decorative gravel was common in desert communities. Having and maintaining grass seems silly over there. Why did anybody think this was a good idea??

@@Shazzy1228 It's a display of excess, meant to impress. Like, "hey look at me, I have grass and a high water bill" Some people just don't care. Las Vegas should be issuing high fines for wasting water, but they're not.

Yep they will sit back and say my yard is beautiful but im thirsty as hell

Millionaires & Billionaires shouldn't be allowed to do as they please when it harms others.

Yet they keep issuing residential building permits. They are building like there is no tomorrow. Irresponsible issuing of permits.

Agreed

I believe that as long as they can pay the water bill, they should use as much water as they want.

Capitalism can curtail the problem. As the supply gets lower then the price gets higher. If the price get crazy high then the millionaires would be funding projects to bring more water in with the enormous bill they paid. However they would prob just stop using so much.

They need to stop gouging the people that do normal usage

Yeah, just make it more expensive, that'll solve everything. Liberals......

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You have a good point, adding to the cost of water would never hurt the rich. Goes with the saying "You can't tax the rich". To the rich it is a business expense written off in taxes, also an expense passed on to the consumer.

sounds sensible, the opposite of rebates for more usage.

Do you have data showing that "Just banning water features at commercial properties like casinos and water fountains at apartment complexes and other commercial properties would save more water than eliminating all residential lawns" or is that a speculation or hunch?

climate change is also getting worse. so there's that.

@@agenericbot Spending millions to install a lower inlet to catch a greater volume of water isn’t an answer,Climate change will have special meaning for Las Vegas shortly,Farming in California should see a fifty percent reduction by mid year next year,I’m fascinated with what decision will be made ,Corporate Agricultural profits,Cheap illegal disposable labor ,Or people’s needs for water,I’m betting on corporate agricultural profits

@@sarcasmmuch8905 capitalism۔ 🤑

THEY ALREADY STOPPED ALL NEW BUILDING PERMITS IN CLARK COUNTY FOR 2022 SITING NOT ENOUGH WATER

@@ryancook9007 They stopped permitting in 94,It lasted 3 months,Then business as usual

Bull on regulation if they dont like it quit building in the Desert

Waay overdue for new attitudes to planting & maintaining grass in the desert 🏜 I agree with an earlier commenter who said those who use more than their allotment per person (unless some approved health reason), the price should climb rapidly as more is used, with a maximum cap to prevent billionaires from going crazy.

@@BoltRM they do that in California theres a meter on the house if you use over a certain amount anything over it the bill goes up

there are good grasses for deserts that can and do help trap water and bring it down to aquifers and help prevent flash flooding.... sad part is they aren't using said grasses. Grass isn't the issue, its what type and how you water it. see the Al Baydha project; grass is integral to healing the land in saudi arabia. It can work in america as well with probable better results since we get more rain. Grass has gotten a bad rap for too long, people need to be less ignorant and inform themselves on how the earth works before making blanket statements.

@@ShiningSakura - You are probably right about using the right grasses. However, I suspect that the grass you propose would be rejected in Nevada as its appearance would not be conducive to the inhabitants of the area.

Maga...make building great again

The problem is the politicians let developers build and expand the city and added millions of people to a reservoir that was built in 1935 for a 1/3 of what the population is today. Common sense should have told them that's not going to work. But nope they keep building adding millions without expanding or building a new reservoir. Politicians want to blame everything but themselves for it and the media is letting them get away with it.

Rich idiots? Poor MUCH? Sounds like a YOU problem.

Eat the rich.

We must kill them befor they kill us. Serious!!!

Golfing is an economic engine, just like hotels and other industries. Responsible water usage is the key, Many if not most use recycled graywater.

The problem is you aren’t saving near enough water. Nevada gets 300k acre-feet from their Colorado River allotment. The lower basin states are currently conserving at least 1 million acre-feet of water and it still hasn’t been enough. To compare, here in Arizona, golf courses used roughly 120k acre-feet in 2019 for the entire state. Which was less than 2% of the 7 million acre-feet it gets from all of its sources. You could get rid of all of Arizonas golf courses, all of Las Vegas water use, all of Arizona’s indoor water use and you still would stop water losses. Arizona Agriculture uses more water than all other water uses combined, you could add the entire state of Nevada’s water and you wouldn’t match Arizona agriculture water use. With California agriculture uses way more than that. For some reason these corporations can’t farm anywhere else but here and make money exporting all over the country and globe.

You sound like an arrogant know it all....

You're making too much sense. It will never work. lol.

That's only for the front yard

Pool covers…..REALLY, POOL COVERS. YOU SHOULDNT EVEN HAVE GOOD DAM POOLS AT ALL! Geez.

@@Aztec339 Surprisingly, pools actually use less water than yards. Once full you only need to account for evaporation while you have to constantly water a lawn.

Sad...before they built those homes the county/city should have forced the developers to use water conserving measures in their designs. Well, that might make it harder to sell homes to folks so that didn't happen. Funny how the public are at fault for the problems of county/city water issues (as well as other problems they have) and those who manage water systems like the colorado river project do not tell developers and local governments " the river has reached its capacity " to supply water. STOP building new hotels, casinos, homes, no more people etc.

@ E mitchell,-Nice Advice, & Good Insight also.

Citation needed...

@@shortattentionspangarage1312 John Wesley Powell also served as director of the U.S. Geological Survey from 1881 to 1894. During his tenure he touched off controversy by advocating strict conservation of water resources in the developing states and territories of the arid West. “There is not enough water to irrigate all the lands,” he remarked at a Los Angeles congress of farmers and developers in October 1893. “I tell you gentlemen you are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights, for there is not enough water to supply the land.” Subsequent interstate conflicts over the water of the Colorado and other Western rivers proved Powell’s words to be prophetic

@@NarleyAdventures Back then the developers and politicians wanted growth and wouldn't listen, so much has changed.

Yes...And i was taught the democrats were for the little guy...nope.

Yes VIVA Las Vegas!

@@matthoward8546 you were lied to my November India golf golf alpha

@@matthoward8546 now do Arizona, where their conservative state continues to blame residents for water use while the allow farms to use 70% of the water. Including farms exporting water intensive crops to the Middle East. Hell, they were really proud of getting a Taiwanese chip manufacturer in 2020 which is very water intensive. They were also really proud of approving a copper mine sale to a Brazilian mining company that would have used 1/3 of the entire state of Nevada Colorado River allotment by itself.

@@matthoward8546 democrats are way better than Republicans. Republicans are only there to serve big corporations Big pharma big oil etc. and rich folks. Don't pretend otherwise

do you know what the solution will be then i used to work for a large southeast water department -------they will just pump it in from nearby states almost like a railroad but just with underground pipes no big deal

They'll start pumping the aquifer long before the lake goes dry. Everyone on wells will be left without water before the city does.

@@freebird1ification which state will provide the water for tens of millions of people? Washington? Louisiana? Mississippi? All the surrounding states have drought issues. It’ll have to come from far, and lots of it.

@@rickb3078 forget Canadian oil pipelines. Just a big ole water pipeline from the Mississippi basin

Based on your words, you do not have a clue about water reality... the lake IS THE GROUND WATER mr howard! OMG! DUH! LOL!

Yes, lake Mead is already disappearing rapidly.

Vegas bought nearly all of Spring Valley (except 3 ranches, 1 my friend ownes), and are building a pipeline.. You can see it east of Vegas on 15.

@@SSsmith24 Spring Valley, its east of Ely. The last valley before Utah..

@@yapandasoftware coocoo coco puff...dasterdly Dems, tin foil hat lately?

Yes well it is a dessert....

How about Caesar palace fountain ? Lol

Parks and golf courses use effluent water, go ahead and drink it. 😂. It's cleaned raw sewage and chemically contaminated water not meant for human use.. Very important your children, or yourself do not touch there face and or play in the sprinklers.

In Arizona they water the golf courses with greywater. Just pissing it away.

@@nonaeubinis4934 yeah that goes with effluent.

I guess you didn't hear the part where they said they big users use less than 1 percent of total.

They say that about all systems....fix the loopholes. lol

imo Money has nothing to do with foresight or intelligence. imo

If in the municipality I can guarantee that doesn't involve work for the needy the actual needy, imagine for the drought. Living in lala-land

Foresight, what's that?! 🤔

@@ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1 True

@@utterbullspit Foresight is what many people had before most people simply stopped thinking.

cant the county or whatever authority ban lawn watering? government overrides HOA I would hope.

@@filanfyretracker i’m sure they probably could, it’s just a matter of actually doing it

Conversely in Arizona they have "rock" lawns with colorful small stones and a mylar underlayment to not only keep the rocks from becoming part of the dirt, but allow water runoff to fill drainage pipes feeding the reservoirs. Greed has always killed societies.....

The truth is man did build in deserts, but our modern urban planning system that is highly reliant on high water use, car useage, gasoline, and other resources is UNSUSTAINABLE.

@@dustywaxhead when man built in the desert it was in small settlements around natural water sources. It is the water we are running out of, not gasoline or power. There was even a plan to bring water from Texas to California. It would have cost 100 billion dollars. It was voted down. We are robbing Peter to pay Paul. We should learn from our ancestors and those tribes that live on the edges of deserts. But we are to smart for that.

@Ann Hanover what the F do you know about WW2 you stupid broad

@Ann Hanover I actually am... I may do say rude things but I am very much Sharp and smoking intelligent. So with that being said answer my question.

No we don't our water come from angeles crest reservoir and rain water we don't use lake mead

He uses a lot of water for a dead guy.

@@steven4315 His estate, not him. You know what was meant.

Like OMG....your like totally super right!!!! OMG we literally just have to stop!!!!🤣🤣

yeah the droughts are going to get worse.

I'll do my part and stop taking showers. Drink more alcohol.

The rich don't care. They say they pay for it

It's almost as if 8 billion planet destroying humans was a bad idea for one small planet.

@@jamespoon2656 yeah, that too.

@@jamespoon2656 😂😂😂

Thank you.

But your urine is yellow and stinky and I don't think we allow that.

@@ivabigbotty9437 no

Everything you drink is water, except tar and Mercury ever liquid is made of water

@@lptvboy no it’s not. Shut up

Vegas going down is not a bad thing...should have never been built in the first place

You are exactly right, and the human population is increasing to levels that are hard for our planet to sustain.

Do you water your lawn ? Then your part of the problem also

@@ripemm5737 No, I do not have a lawn!

I bet they are overwhelmed. I see water waste every day in apartment complexes and keeping track of this probably requires money nobody has right now. It's up to us to be our own disciplined citizens. The apartment managers all know that they are wasting water and probably aren't being given permission to do anything about it from the landlords so we need again to focus on greedy landlords. They can decorate with rocks and not with so much grass and watering the parking lots.

@Suicide by Muslim No the guy is doing the right thing, if people weren't so selfish he wouldn't have to make the call in teh first place.

@Suicide by Muslim Living life like a normal human being is roaming like our ancestors. Playing golf, having lawns and swimming pools is artifical nonsense that isn't necessary.

@Suicide by Muslim Neanderthals were highly intelligent, thank you.

And golf courses

All great ideas. Unfortunately, the Wealthy will do none of those things. Make grass illegal everywhere it never grew naturally. They can't visit a park with indigenous plants? Surely they can make artificial grass that can be used for sports fields and golf courses.............They just don't want to. Figure out what the average family uses and jack the prices once someone exceeds the average. Also WTF is Lake Las Vegas? Is everyone in the southwest in charge out of of their frigging minds?

Most car washes use recycled water through out the day. They save good amount of water tbh. These golf courses are the most damages

Who?

Now you can burn the trees on cold high-desert nights!

@@Dreamhelmet Adding to the Global Warming with burning wood. Wrong answer.

And who will pay for expensive desalinated water? $4 a gallon anyone?

Golf courses are employers, taxpayers and economic engines. They should be responsibly landscaped for water use. Many if not most in the SW use recycled gray water.

@@KB4QAA Yeah, typical Bougie attitude. Golf courses dump hundreds of tons of fertilizers and pesticides into lakes, rivers and streams which run into reservoirs and ground water. They take up thousands of square miles of land in areas of acute housing shortage. Let the lower class die of thirst so the upper crust can hit a ball with a stick and pretend they are feudal Scottish lords. Go back to criticizing your maid as she irons your Izods.

@@massivecumshot What a knuckle dragger. Flash News: They have allowed common morons on to public courses for over 140 years. Even you would feel welcome. Well designed courses don't drain into exterior drainages. In any case NOT a problem in Las Vegas, pal.

YOU GOT THAT RIGHT MY FRIEND

All big republican donors

Are you guys going to the bathroom outside?

Don’t tell to many people you have well .the big users will want it!

@@davidlockley2635 yeah no kidding! Put a garage over it make it look good.

The water table in Vegas gotta be really deep.

@@natureboy1313 not as deep as Nancy Hernandez or Geneva Hicks vagina.

Makes no sense they have the ocean Crazy

@@yourdaddy1643 do you know what an ocean is?

@@sentientflower7891 yea ask your girls

that is the real problem, with everything. water, energy, pollution, waste disposal, merchandise, everything. no matter how drastic we cut down on anything we are only prolonging the inevitable. we need a real solutions not bandaids.

Thank you for mentioning over-population. Almost NOBODY will face the reality that too many humans is the problem, not any fricken water shortage.

VIVA Las Vegas VIVA Las Vegas!

Chemical Toilets would help some if you lose your money there a trip to the potty is a natural reaction!

The solution is to conserve 25-50% system wide on the colorado river.

What's your point?

It doesn't matter who uses the most water the whole southwest will become nothing but ghost towns before long.

That's because California has the water rights way before Las Vegas even became a railroad water stop.

Lake Mead is not a lake... it is a Reservoir. The asinine are those who believe preventing what is inevitable is the solution. The only solution to a growing demand and diminishing supply is... a new source. Las Vegas will need to invest in desalination technology and infanstructure to pull water in from the Pacific or Gulf of California. Generating the electricity needed can be done with solar power . In fact, cali and arizona should do the same. Does this sound crazy, unimaginable, impossible ?.... yeah....well so did the Hoover Dam

We are not in control of Lake Mead. Nevada only uses 4% of the water. California and Arizona use 96% of the water. Our water can't depend on what they do.

@@TheBandit7613 No but the government is! Go do your research! It's all about control!

@@TheBandit7613 WRONG. Las Vegas gets 90 percent of its water from the lake.

@@justayoutuber1906 You don't understand. Out of all the water in the lake, 4% goes to Nevada, 35% goes to Arizona and the rest goes to California. Nevada doesn't even use the whole 4% share. Nevada saw this coming 40 years ago and took action then. AZ and CA didn't plan for this. Nevada is fine.

Exactly!

It’s a free country lmao you cannot restrict American movement

Then you should move to the rust belt, ton of empty places to live there, cheap rent.

@@Moondoggy1941 And plenty of water. lol.

Maybe all businesses should move out than

You believe the news. Good for you my November India golf golf alpha

I have a bridge on the Hudson for sale

Private homes and HOAs are NOT the biggest consumers of water...by a long shot. Did you even watch the video?

I'd rather see water used for produce that watering a golf course or filling a lake.

Huntington Beach voted against a desalinization plant. The big corps there like the cheap water from the Colorado.

Great answer. Yes time to make a change time to understand water is the most inportant thing not cars not money not job time to reflect about beeing a plane human

@@deedeebel1 this is more or less my point, its the kind of crops more than that they are growing crops. Food staples and necessary food items should be focused on. Dairy, almonds, avocados, and even wine at the quantity its produced is the issue. those crops arent suited for that enviornmet and thus take more water. so cal has been talking about water shortage and reduction since the 80s, but water usage continuted to climb. instead of trying to build a bullet train, they shouldve brokeground on desalinization plants. with that, we just have a smaller population here in nevada. for us to have a things like golfcourses providing 3 million people with access, is a bit different then providing 10 million people in LA county alone. but i digress, i dont agree with it regardless. none of that should be a thing in drought stricken areas in my opinion. this is all avoidable by simple forethought and simple adjustments. agriculture in cali doesnt need to stop, it needs to change. spraying water into the dry wind over crops is no longer a viable method for watering, yet it is still allowed in so cal. it is destroying the west, and has destroyed all of so cal as well. it cant continue to go on. we face two options, increase the cost of food as a result of increased water cost from building desalinization and no longer relying on the colorado as a primary means of water in California and Arizona as well, or we let the river run entirely dry, or very low (historically the colorado is a seasonal river, it would dry up entirely at times before dams were built.) If it does run dry, or we run out of drawable water, las vegas becomes a ghost town, So Cal will immediately go into a state of distress and crop production will be impossible entirely. we will kill the west, this is a bigger threat than Russia and China at the moment. This could displace over 60-100 million people over then next 10-20 years

stop the fake news