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2009-02-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Las Vegas Running Out of Water Means Dimming Los Angeles Lights

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-26 15:55|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 There's a great big puddle west of LA how much would it cost to start tapping into that? I've heard that nanotech is coming up with some much better ways at de-salinization.

If they want to live in a desert, what do they expect?

Posted by AlanC 2009-02-26 16:19|| 2009-02-26 16:19|| Front Page Top

#2 If those costs are right, then Nevada is suffering from a serious water pricing error. It sounds like their residential water costs are *lower* than what the utilities charge up here in rainy, green, wet central Pennsylvania. That's absolutely nuts. No wonder they're sucking their reservoirs dry!

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-02-26 16:59|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-02-26 16:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Colorado river water heavily subsidized by the American taxpayer. It goes to show you can't kill free government money even after 70 years and several times growth in per capita prosperity.

Posted by ed 2009-02-26 17:43|| 2009-02-26 17:43|| Front Page Top

#4 I can hear Sam Kinnison now, "Its a fucking Dessert"

Posted by Cheaderhead 2009-02-26 17:44|| 2009-02-26 17:44|| Front Page Top

#5 A good book written years ago, Cadillac Desert, pretty much nailed this.

Posted by Gabby 2009-02-26 18:25|| 2009-02-26 18:25|| Front Page Top

#6 I just moved to Las Vegas from the Bay Area. I bought one of those foreclosed properties. I'm replacing my front lawn with a xeriscape (the bank let my whole yard die.)

Every drop of water used inside in Vegas is cleaned and returned to Lake Mead.

This is a great place to live. If you are single or if you have a family. I love living here.

Posted by Penguin 2009-02-26 19:06|| 2009-02-26 19:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Every drop of water used inside in Vegas is cleaned and returned to Lake Mead.

Not exactly. In a land of 10% humidity a whole lot of it evaporates and is returned as rain in Ohio.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2009-02-26 20:40|| 2009-02-26 20:40|| Front Page Top

#8 #2, Mitch H; I suspect the expenses of the utilities in Pennsylvania are higher. Except perhaps in California, LV or Phoenix itself the wages in the West would be considered poverty level in much of the East. And ed is correct as well. However since the Feds control so much of Western lands they were required to chip in for lands that were locked out from being tax providing private land similar to the East.

Posted by tipover 2009-02-26 21:13|| 2009-02-26 21:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Sorry Glenmore, I wasn't trying to be misleading. Obviously plenty of water evaporates.

Posted by Penguin 2009-02-26 22:06|| 2009-02-26 22:06|| Front Page Top

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