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Except to my understanding, they aren't currently using any big dam power. Though they plan to soon.
by Namrog84 10y ago
Except to my understanding, they aren't currently using any big dam power. Though they plan to soon.
- jobu 10y agoThird sentence in the article: The power flows from a mix of solar panels and hydroelectric turbines including the Hoover Dam. It seems odd to think about hydroelectric power in a desert as a renewable resource, but it does come from snow in Colorado.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoIts not sustainable at current Las Vegas water consumption rates. http://www.ibtimes.com/lake-mead-water-level-drops-record-low-drought-dries-colorado-river-basin-2372146 http://www.ibtimes.com/lake-mead-water-level-drops-record-lo...
- niftich 10y agoCalifornia is apportioned 14x more water from the Colorado Basin than Nevada, Arizona 9x more [1]. Las Vegas has implemented several water conservation measures [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact [2] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/planetpolicy/2015/05/02/5-facts-you-need-to-know-about-lake-meads-water-crisis/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/planetpolicy/2015/05/02/5-fac...
- wlesieutre 10y agoCalifornia also has 14x the population of Nevada, so that's not too surprising
- cjensen 10y agoThat's not why California gets more water. It has to do with how Water Rights in the Western US work [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior-appropriation_water_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior-appropriation_water_righ...
- jessriedel 10y agoWell, sort of. The fact that CA has 14 times the population today is strongly related to the fact that it applied 14 times the water for productive use in the past.
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- ams6110 10y agoReally? I would have thought that nearly all the power used in Las Vegas would come from the Hoover Dam.