Larry Zack wrote:
The problem is that most of the water from lake mead
goes to california and arizona. Las Vegas was so
small at the time Hoover Dam was built that nevada
didn't fight very hard for a large share of the water.
I saw a show last night on the travel channel and it
said that the water park "wet & wild" loses 75% of its
water daily to evaporation! If that is accurate
then think about all of the pools either private or
hotel owned that are subject to evaporation in las
vegas. ( doubt that regular pools that dont have
water slides and such spraying or misting water would
reach a 75% daily evaporation rate but I am willing to
be they lose close to 20% dailty during the hot summer
months.
I think that estimate is off by two orders of magnitude. I have a swimming pool. It loses about an inch a week to evaporation in July and August. That's less than 1.5% per week, or about 0.2% per day.
It takes less water to keep my pool filled than it takes to water the neighbor's 20' x 40' lawn.
Anyway, construction is still going strong in
las vegas with no signs of slowing down. I have to
believe that the federal goverment at some time in the
next few years is going to step in and give las vegas
some of the water that is going to california. California is either going to have to either use
desalination for Los Angeles or do some water
conservation of its own.
Before moving to Las Vegas, we lived in Durango, Colorado. That's also a tourist town and retirement destination. To get a new connection to the city water cost about $1600.00 for a 1/2" connection, and there was another smaller charge to hook up to the city sewage system. Clark County should be so smart.
Dan
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