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Next up: Las Vegas
by mrbluecoat 10mo ago
Next up: Las Vegas
- MadDemon 10mo agoLas Vegas is actually very efficient with their water use.
- Cthulhu_ 10mo agoMaybe, but the southwest of the US uses more water than it has and can import. With droughts and overconsumption, the water supply is at risk. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_North_American_megadrought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_North_American_me...
- MadDemon 10mo agoNevada only uses a small percentage of the Colorado river water (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact). Most of the water is used for farming in the desert.
- 0xAFFFF 10mo agoBeing efficient in watering golf courses in the desert in certainly nice, but maybe it's time to question having over 50 golf courses in the desert with an impending massive water shortage.
- MadDemon 10mo agoThat's definitely questionable, but a drop in the bucket. Irrigation for all the farms in the desert is using vastly more water.
- ben7799 10mo agoLOL. Las Vegas water prices are ridiculously low for the paltry amount of water they have. It's hard to get people to not waste the water when the price is artificially kept low. Las Vegas water is less expensive than mine, and we have in excess of 10x the precipitation and everything is naturally green.
- MadDemon 10mo agoThey seem to be able to survive with the small amount of water that is allocated to them from the Colorado river.
- nephihaha 10mo agoMy money would be on Dubai. Cape Town is already there.
- kristofferR 10mo agoThe next one is likely Utah, they are drying up the Great Salt Lake for alfalfa production, producing the next Owens Lake, likely making Salt Lake City and other cites unhabitable within a decade or two. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Salt_Lake#Shrinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Salt_Lake#Shrinking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq0FhcfAbG0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq0FhcfAbG0