Private firms scour booming Nevada desert for water profits • FRANCE 24 English

Real estate projects in the Nevada desert are flourishing thanks to an ambitious water project. With a 35-kilometre underground pipeline, Vidler Water Resources is bringing water under the desert straight into the sprawling suburbs of Reno, some 30 miles away. It is a gamble that could prove lucrative in a region regularly hit by droughts. But some worry about the long-term impact of these water transfers.
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[@nenasiek]

Maybe dont build new homes in a desert?

Madness.

[@jimbojones101]

Nothing is sacred to the Corp.

[@Mrc172]

A plan that is doomed to fail, but that's just normal for the U.S.A where smart urban planning takes a back seat to profit. They just never learn.

[@coraltown1]

who else learned ? .. 😃🙈🙉🙊

[@tatovive]

Yep! They’ll plop a suburb along a road and not do a damn thing to facilitate the traffic they’re adding.

[@talkinghand122]

Never say never. They will eventually, the hard way.

[@sharongillesp]

Why are you using blue text over blue skies and blue water? It’s hard to read!

[@tr33m00nk]

You can "bet the farm" the 'developers' will have clauses in their contracts absolving them of ANY financial responsibility to the buyers/residents when the water is used up (a few years from now?). It'll be the "state/government", That's US, who will be asked/made to foot the bill. Somehow we must find a way/the courage to rein in the Hedge fund/Corporate greed machine which is LITERALLY selling our country to the highest bidder.

[@sharongillesp]

I wish they’d sell to Denmark. They seem to have a better handle on creating balanced communities.

[@Ukie88]

Water will run out there soon. Aquifers are not refillable like cisterns I believe.

[@sharongillesp]

It takes approximately 100 years to refill an aquifer through natural filtration.
And humans - as smart as we think we are - can’t force it.
Aquifers are created by natural forces ONLY.

[@Phoenix-in-flight]

You should be asking how long can it all last, but are you?

[@bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477]

Lil Dubai

[@mr.marius5094]

Americans being Americans