[Natali :)]

Originally Posted by MomMom

Oh, what a crisis. You shouldn't be thinking of moving here. Eventually it will be a rule that if you want to come to Las Vegas to visit, you'll have to bring your own water and a bottle for a resident.

And our state government is doing NOTHING about it, just blindly going along its merry way hoping for the best and calling on the native rain Gods to rain everyday here to alleviate the problem.

OK, MomMom - I will bring 2 bottles for u - if u will tell me the names
of native rain Gods .

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by dynimagelv

It can snow in Colorado Springs and Denver every day for the nex 100 years and it wouldn't help us a bit....all of that runoff goes to the Mississippi river... It has to snow on this side of the Continetal Divide for it to reach Lake Mead.

that being said...much of this shorfall is created by the Water Queen because she gave away even more water at the last River Commission Meeting in an attempt to force that "WATER GRAB" from the counties up above us.....

That's what you get when you pay someone over 1/4 of a MILLION dollars every year.

I know, but my post was already too long. One would think though, that if it was snowing on the east slope, it would also "probably" be snowing on the west slope.

I didn't want to get too far into the politics, but since everyone else brought it up ...why didn't the powers that be stop the growth, or at least control it? Isn't that their job? Pat Mulroy, who I like by the way, isn't the only voice. There is also the State of Nevada, the County Commission, and at least five City Councils that could have prevented any problems whether real or perceived. I have heard Pat say on more than one occasion that the growth couldn't be stopped, but she's wrong. The graft paid to politicians by developers couldn't be stopped probably.

I wouldn't want that headache for a measly 1/4 mil a year.

[Buzz123]

I'm not a scientist, but I read that this planet has the same amount of water it has always had and always will have. The problem has always been about where it is and who controls it. Right now it's not in the Rocky Mountains where we need it to be. And in Nevada we have a handful of know-it-all ranchers that are wasting public (that's us) land, water, and the native environment, just to preserve their personal "way of life". I'm not sure that for Southern Nevada to take the water from Central or Northern Nevada is a good thing, in fact I don't think it is; but those blankity blank ranchers don't deserve it either. Cows were never meant to be raised in the desert where they spoil the fragile environment.

To paraphrase Abbey: The idea of ranchers being western noblemen, out there protecting the environment, and doing good, is a myth.

(I just hope I'll still be welcome at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko. )

[strato58]

Just bury your head in the sand....you can look for water that way....
of course it can be a huge problem

[MomMom]

Originally Posted by strato58

Just bury your head in the sand....you can look for water that way....
of course it can be a huge problem

Which is why Buzz brought the subject up of putting a limit on growth in earlier years.

Just too dang many people moved here and it wasn't stopped. I remember, so many times in the early 90's, some of us were complaining about the amount of growth happening here, to various city council members, politicians, whoever would listen. And nobody took the opinions of concerned residents very seriously as you can see.


I do hope that newcomers realize that the day of serious water rationing might come upon us sometime in the future, and not just the little bit of conserving we do now (limits on lawn-plant irrigation, car washings, etc.)

[las vegas drunk]

From what I am getting from Mom Mom and others is that my concern is very real then. I remember when I moved here in early 2006 the water problem was always the main concern. Later, the economy tanked so it was kind of forgotten as the main concern is "economy in crisis."

[Pretzelogik]

Yes indeed it is in fact a DESERT

[Natali :)]

Originally Posted by MomMom

I do hope that newcomers realize that the day of serious water rationing might come upon us sometime in the future, and not just the little bit of conserving we do now (limits on lawn-plant irrigation, car washings, etc.)

so some water limits LV have now, correct ?

what about water limit for pools ?

[AA702]

Originally Posted by Natali :)

so some water limits LV have now, correct ?

what about water limit for pools ?

pools in general do not really use a lot of water, but they do tell you to cover your pool to limit evaporation.

[Kalbo]

Water supply is the least of my worries about Vegas.