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They have no water rights sufficient to create a farm in the middle of the desert. They bought a town which only draws enough water for personal use and some sm

They have no water rights sufficient to create a farm in the middle of the desert. They bought a town which only draws enough water for personal use and some small gardens. It's also on the way to Las Vegas, but requires you to detour on a dirt road for a significant distance. That's not going to happen -- it's simpler for tourists to just continue on their way to Las Vegas.

rsync 9y ago
"They have no water rights sufficient to create a farm in the middle of the desert." They may have no water sufficient to create a farm in the middle of the desert, but I don't think it's a problem of water rights. As a Colorado native I have a good sense of water rights, but as a farmer in California I have been (pleasantly ?) surprised by how little restriction or ownership there is attached to water here ... it is very unlikely that the water rights are not attached to their parcels and its possible that they were never detached at any point. All they have to do is dig a well. Maybe nothing will come out, but nobody will stop them ...
weaksauce 9y ago
i mean if they want to have some legal weed(and gambling) there is primm in the same amount of distance from the off ramp that you would be taking anyway. 10 miles on a small road vs. 10 miles on a freeway to primm.
Houshalter 9y ago
A sealed greenhouse can be very water efficient by recycling the water.
duskwuff 9y ago
Calling Nipton a "town" is a bit of an exaggeration, too. From what I'm seeing in the satellite photos, it's barely a wide spot in the road, in the middle of the desert, near what might have once been a train station. I've seen truck stops larger than this. (And I'm not exaggerating when I say "in the middle of the desert". It's right on the edge of the Mojave National Preserve. This is not a good place for anything, let alone for agriculture.)
- dan1234 9y ago
  Assuming i've found the right place[1], I doubt Nipton would even be counted as a village in the UK. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Nipton,+CA+92364,+USA/@35.4656878,-115.2770909,1874m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x80cf1357406ac9c1:0x7bc3755ecfe631f8!8m2!3d35.4666532!4d-115.2722098 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Nipton,+CA+92364,+USA/@3...
  - duskwuff 9y ago
    That's the one. If you zoom in to Street View, you can see the back side of the "Hotel Nipton".
- jlewallen 9y ago
  I've driven through Nipton more times than I can count. It's a ghost town, I don't know how people survive there.

rsync 9y ago

"They have no water rights sufficient to create a farm in the middle of the desert." They may have no water sufficient to create a farm in the middle of the desert, but I don't think it's a problem of water rights. As a Colorado native I have a good sense of water rights, but as a farmer in California I have been (pleasantly ?) surprised by how little restriction or ownership there is attached to water here ... it is very unlikely that the water rights are not attached to their parcels and its possible that they were never detached at any point. All they have to do is dig a well. Maybe nothing will come out, but nobody will stop them ...

weaksauce 9y ago

i mean if they want to have some legal weed(and gambling) there is primm in the same amount of distance from the off ramp that you would be taking anyway. 10 miles on a small road vs. 10 miles on a freeway to primm.

Houshalter 9y ago

A sealed greenhouse can be very water efficient by recycling the water.

duskwuff 9y ago

Calling Nipton a "town" is a bit of an exaggeration, too. From what I'm seeing in the satellite photos, it's barely a wide spot in the road, in the middle of the desert, near what might have once been a train station. I've seen truck stops larger than this. (And I'm not exaggerating when I say "in the middle of the desert". It's right on the edge of the Mojave National Preserve. This is not a good place for anything, let alone for agriculture.)

dan1234 9y ago
Assuming i've found the right place[1], I doubt Nipton would even be counted as a village in the UK. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Nipton,+CA+92364,+USA/@35.4656878,-115.2770909,1874m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x80cf1357406ac9c1:0x7bc3755ecfe631f8!8m2!3d35.4666532!4d-115.2722098 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Nipton,+CA+92364,+USA/@3...
- duskwuff 9y ago
  That's the one. If you zoom in to Street View, you can see the back side of the "Hotel Nipton".
jlewallen 9y ago
I've driven through Nipton more times than I can count. It's a ghost town, I don't know how people survive there.