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Wow. You really don't think on a global scale there's a shortage of potable drinking water? I would recommend you check out an environmental science book or two.
The only reason the Southwest isn't drying up because water flows to money.
Actually, as far as Arizona is concerned, the reason there is no shortage of potable water is, we have had a whole lot of rain and snow that filled all our storage areas to the rim!
I have always hated Las Vegas, talk about an overrated place that attracts some of the worst people you can find anywhere. It is one of the few places in the world where white trash can afford brand new homes with swimming pools while working a service job. The place was doomed from the get go though, it is Satan's playground!
So someone with a service job is trash? Wow...typical liberal elite. Let us talk about how much energy is spend in the mansion of your haunts Long Island and Connecticut. And yeah, what about the water use in California and with all of your heroes, the Hollywood elites?
They seriously need to build desalination plants like they have in Kuwait and other Gulf countries. If some desert sheiks can do it we can, after all we are America. NOt just about Las Vegas but also about Phoenix, Palm Springs, Tucson, Salt Lake City, Santa Fe and other Southwest cities.
Reduction in cattle farming. We are losing an acre of forest cover per day, in the Amazon, to cattle ranching. It's causing massive ecological problems. The rainforests are the "lungs" of the planet. Destroy them, and destroy not only other species, but our own, as well. The expansion of cattle ranching in the U.S.--due to a growing and unsustainable population here--is encroaching on habitat necessary to our long-term survival. People are just going to have to start eating less meat. There is simply no way that the land, globally, can sustain cattle ranching to feed 6 billion people--and growing.
Great, lets see how the government can dictate less meat eating. I'm sure Barack and the liberals who voted for him support that....government making as many decisions as they can.
At the same time....I might go to Outback Steakhouse tomorrow....and Applebees has nice ribeyes, not like Outback's though....and Ruth Chris is to die for.
If you eat veggie burgers and it is not for religious reasons, you must be a hippie or a woman or you need to be a real man.
side question I visited lake mead recently, there are a lot of curvy roads it was a fun drive, I went a little over the speed limit when there were no one around. I only saw one police, around callville area/lake mead is it generally very few police or I was luck that day?
I recently realized I can buy locally grown meat products here in southern New Hampshire. the beef and pork are very tasty as they are grass fed and without the stress of being confined in western or mid western feedlots. Much of the Northeast could grow meat animals without any concern about water. What they cannot do is meet the low prices created by mass production supported by mining water from the great aquifer under Kansas.
I have also noted that West Texas is still bone dry while East Texas requires an amphibious vehicle to get around. Climate is one thing but local weather is quite another.
lake mead is at 46% of it's capacity or 118 feet below the maximum capacity elavation january 2009.... do you realy think lake mead is going to go dry??
It's also about clean water...since 90 percent of the world's water supply in polluted in some form.... That is scary
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hay maybe they could pipe water from the great lakes but where do's it end..
