i think the lesson here is....... dont build a lake in the desert. also dont buy a luxury lakefront house on a man made lake in the desert. pretty simple stuff.
And of course, only an idiot would even consider building such a development (with a big lake) as this when a drought is already happening in the region. But then again you always have bigger idiots with money willing to buy into such a devolvement after a drought has already been declared in the region.
By all means, trust the developers. They have no skin in the game. They would never steer people wrong. I mean, what would they have to gain, to mislead people? It’s fine. Everything’s great.
Let bygones, be bygones... They're paying a pretty penny between HUD and resort fees to reside there, and from articles I have read, nearly $600-800 for per month, per unit. Total up all that revenue, and that's enough to buy a river every year.. lol
Same developer that showed condos with balconies big enough for table and chairs and then delivered condos with balconies too small to stand out on. Lawyers get richer.
The important thing is the price of water. And we all better start thinking about the PRICE of a gallon of water! What is that? 40 cents? A dollar, forty? Time for our grown up pants 👖 to be put back on!!!! ✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️ If we'll do EVERYTHING with the Lord's blessing, we'll prosper? But letting men openly fk in public doesn't endear us to Christ. Nor allowing them to 'school' our children on homo-ism, either!!! 🙄
@@brianarnone933 you know how it ends. The question is WHEN? When will Celine Dion's money run out? Lake Las Vegas is inhabited by multi-millionaires. Collectively, how do you think they got that water in the first place? THEY BOUGHT IT. THEY PAID FOR EVERY GALLON. It wasn't allowed to just flow in from the lake freely. Wait to see how what ends? You sound like you expect to see an OK CORRAL movie made out of this! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 It ends when their multi billions stop buying the water anymore. Simple.
Or how the border is left wide open. Over 2m illegals have crossed since Biden stopped construction on the wall. Where do majority of them reside. South western states.... its insane what is going on. And Legal citzens will be faced with population control next 10-12 years.
@@nasty3145 I agree and its just sickening how this asshole Biden wants anyone to come here and bring their cartel/ghetto ways and lifestyle, thats why California especially, but all 50 states are so fu&&ed up its despicable.
Pretty soon you won't have to worry about cutting back you're going to turn on your faucets and there's nothing going to come out. But just remember all those high rolling luxury types need that lakefront property out in the desert. I mean you can't ride jet skis in the sand right??? Lol
We are all doomed. This is the current mentality everywhere. Vegas should have remained cool, like in the 60's. More, more more has lead to less less less.
Then it is time to cut off the water to 90% of southern Cali because they can use the money they use for the illegal aliens and make some desalting plants on their shores of the ocean instead of stealing the water that the desert states in order to survive need
Vanessa, may I ask you to perhaps ask them, where will the water come from since they say there's no problem. And do you suppose the 1.5 billion they siphoned from lake Mead last year may have, just maybe contributed to the crisis we're having there?
Sell? It will all be abandoned like the rest of the decrepit Landscapes everywhere you go in the USA that Americans are proud to call historic, so they don't feel embarrassed by the rest of the world.
When mead & powell reach dead pool in 2023. Vegas will be installing a big straw in the deepest part of that little pond, then proceed to drink every single drop lol. IMO 2023 is going to be a scary year.😔.
Summer 2022 isn't over yet, could happen sooner than you think. Evaporation becomes like a feed back loop and the lake will begin to drain at an exponential rate. It seems like it is already happening.
Actually, isn't the newest "straw" that's already in Mead lower than the intakes at Hoover? If so, then Vegas can still pull water (as it sends it recycled back into Mead) while Downstream users can't get water (cough, Los Angeles).
The number of Farms that are going to be deprived of water down stream is immense and this water is used for recreation and ascetics - What about the food??
@@rellrell2924 hope not. That would destroy the delicate eco system of the Mississippi Delta. No need in the Southwest draining the Mississippi dry like they have the Colorado River.
The title is a play on words; sure the lake isn’t being filled, but it’s still being maintained at a level to satisfy the extremely rich and powerful. They couldn’t say that “No water is going into the lake,” because it’d be lying about their culpability.
And where do you think that water is coming from even how they say they bought billons of gallons of water from Henderson do they think Las Vegas people are that stupid that Henderson gets their fkin water from lake mead
When there is no more water there will be no more people. That's how every single city has died that ran out of water. And if they are going to sacrifice other water from the regular community to fill that rich people lake then they're just putting a big fat Band-Aid on their problem and causing a wound on everyone else's problem and then if this continues the cities that run out of water just die. Only a little slower. So how do you want it people, do you want to have your luxury or do you want to have drinking water? Your priorities indicate what happens.
The developer doesn't want to to raise panic with the depositors ! If I'm out a couple hundred thousand dollars I'll walk away better than the alternative !
no can do phoenix san diego los angeles doomed as well san diego gets all ALL of it's water from mead and all electricity frm hoover dam and what's gonna happen first very soon is the dam will shutdown all transformers meaning no electricity to san diego vegas phoenix Los Angeles has aqueducts still but those are drying up as well The huge casinos in vegas have they're own underground water wells but again no water source means no water
Here in central Cal, we are building large track homes and water parks to prevent the drought from escalating. Maybe you should see if it will work for you too. We have very smart people here...
Smart would be not moving to the desert and realizing those cities shouldn't be there in the first place. Smart (after owning up to the first part) would also be selling while there's still some water and your property still has value. Stupid would be thinking you can outsmart mother nature in the long run...
doesn't make sense. How has Cali really handled the celebrities who are still using water like crazy for their megamansions? like S. Stallone who is #1 of wasting the most water or cali just NOW started water patrols (NV patrols have been going for 20 yrs) Is Cali passing laws requiring non essential grass to be replaced with artificial turf?
Good reporting Vanessa, thank you for your work. If I have drip line police driving around looking to see if I water my cacti at the wrong time of day I want to see how ALL of my neighbours are using their water then too. Let's see where this water is REALLY going
Oh, i guess we know now why lake Mead is running out of water. Las Vegas has to fill a man made lake for the rich...lol...Nothing lasts forever! Better sell quick!
The entire Great Basin will need ocean pipes with desalination on a level that is comparable to the Colorado River just to refill the empty reservoirs.
@@robhogenson8225 it’s possible to use it. Just very expensive. A 1,000 feet of elevation, massive electrical demand. Canals or pipe. Ocean pumps. Concrete. Dynamite.
This piece doesn't tell us much. Why hasn't local media dug more into the broader issue here? What are people (e.g., officials) going to do as the drought gets worse? How are people (e.g., farmers, residents) adapting to circumstance? There have been many news stories about water levels (e.g., Lake Mead, Lake Powell) over the past year. Most have focused on the dramatic elements (e.g., the marina having to move, human remains that surface as the water recedes), nothing more.
So…….where will the water be coming from? Is it fair that residents of Las Vegas have given up lawns and use way less water while Lake LV residents get to have a picturesque lake and water sports just because people of wealth live there? What about Lake Mead? I guess Lake LV residents will move when the water’s gone
Glad you asked😎 We were curious too, just filmed it this week and did a video overlay between July and August: ua-cam.com/video/tNiVT5i4oXs/v-deo.html looks filled to them brim & maybe even back splashing into the wash
Because there is a water shortage we are going to take extra. And because there may be a drinking water shortage we are going to take more to prevent evaporation from depleting the drinking water we use for lake water. And yes they have alternative plans to drill a very deep well and deplete the ground water,,, The water table has sunk 250 feet in the last 40 years,,, so we are going to take even more to piss it into a boating lake and sprinkle it on our golf course and lawns.
A fake lake in the middle of the desert. What could possibly go wrong ? Purchasing water to fill a recreation lake in the middle of a drought.....ideocracy indeed.
"We have enough money to buy all the water we want and to bribe any official that objects to us wasting so much water that the common folk and farmers desperately need to grow food." ---Lake Las Vegas
Hay that lake is full only full lake I've seen in many states it pays to be rich the poor will pay the penalty for over usage while rich live like kings
Trust me people are watching this very closely now and that God damn Lake better not fill up because the rest of us are suffering now we are watching that
The developer is obviously related to the Captain of the Titanic, " Nothing to worry about folks, we're just going to stop off and get some ice "
Lol 😆...Nice one.
i was thinking the same thing
it's unsinkable and it'll be here for you to pass down to your children.... it'll be a dust bowl before they realize it
i think the lesson here is....... dont build a lake in the desert. also dont buy a luxury lakefront house on a man made lake in the desert. pretty simple stuff.
You better be careful talking like that the liberals are listening you're definitely going to be triggering somebody...
Yup. Waste more water for your resort in the desert. And nobody thought this might be an issue. Figures
And of course, only an idiot would even consider building such a development (with a big lake) as this when a drought is already happening in the region. But then again you always have bigger idiots with money willing to buy into such a devolvement after a drought has already been declared in the region.
By all means, trust the developers. They have no skin in the game. They would never steer people wrong. I mean, what would they have to gain, to mislead people? It’s fine. Everything’s great.
The developer is lying thru his teeth if he says this won't effect anything. Haha.
A developer doing what a developer does.
Yeah, let's keep the rich people's little personal lake filled, while the valley goes dry! 😡
Let bygones, be bygones... They're paying a pretty penny between HUD and resort fees to reside there, and from articles I have read, nearly $600-800 for per month, per unit.
Total up all that revenue, and that's enough to buy a river every year.. lol
2 million a year to keep lake los vegas full !
@@wiredwebmaster just because someone pays for something, doesn't make it right. Get your head out of the sand
Rich people need water to. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go play 18....
Drain that beeotch
Same developer that showed condos with balconies big enough for table and chairs and then delivered condos with balconies too small to stand out on. Lawyers get richer.
What’s more important having water in your faucets and toilets, or filing up Lake Las Vegas?
Jet Skis are way more important than flushing your toilet, just go ask them folks over at Lake Las Vegas. I just can't wait to see how this ends.
Same with i would say 70% of the casino hotels shut them down don’t need them taking preset water from the resedents
The important thing is the price of water. And we all better start thinking about the PRICE of a gallon of water! What is that? 40 cents? A dollar, forty? Time for our grown up pants 👖 to be put back on!!!! ✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️ If we'll do EVERYTHING with the Lord's blessing, we'll prosper? But letting men openly fk in public doesn't endear us to Christ. Nor allowing them to 'school' our children on homo-ism, either!!! 🙄
@@brianarnone933 you know how it ends. The question is WHEN? When will Celine Dion's money run out? Lake Las Vegas is inhabited by multi-millionaires. Collectively, how do you think they got that water in the first place? THEY BOUGHT IT. THEY PAID FOR EVERY GALLON. It wasn't allowed to just flow in from the lake freely. Wait to see how what ends? You sound like you expect to see an OK CORRAL movie made out of this! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 It ends when their multi billions stop buying the water anymore. Simple.
The party will be over when Celine Dion runs out of money to buy more water
“Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!” ~Immortan Joe
Unbelievable how Construction is still allowed to continue even with being slapped in the face with with a very dangerous drought
Or how the border is left wide open. Over 2m illegals have crossed since Biden stopped construction on the wall. Where do majority of them reside. South western states.... its insane what is going on. And Legal citzens will be faced with population control next 10-12 years.
@@nasty3145 I agree and its just sickening how this asshole Biden wants anyone to come here and bring their cartel/ghetto ways and lifestyle, thats why California especially, but all 50 states are so fu&&ed up its despicable.
construction has nothing to do with the drought,
They must be lying to us I seen Las Vegas use water to compact the soil to start building a new casino which I’m sure will be using plenty of water
If the developer says nothing to worry about; Run and sell your house before the market is flooded.
Lake Las Vegas can buy water to fill their luxury lake, but ordinary citizens have to cut back?? SMH....
Pretty soon you won't have to worry about cutting back you're going to turn on your faucets and there's nothing going to come out. But just remember all those high rolling luxury types need that lakefront property out in the desert. I mean you can't ride jet skis in the sand right??? Lol
@@brianarnone933 They can buy a side by side... fits better in the desert and that's more fun anyway!!
I'm going to buy a waterfront property on a 70% off clearance sale, once the Lake dries up... 🤓
Exactly!!! What a fk up, developers better get everything sold, a get the f out, and leave the f'd up rich owners with dust ! Ha ha
Will you pay for that?
Las Vegas is one big pyramid scheme
You missed that wave in 2009. Those condos there were going for 50K and the luxury townhouses for $115K.
Won’t be water front wnymore
it's absolutely ridiculous watching this slowly unfold...
the politicians aren't doing any thing material. as if Las Vegas is doomed.
We are all doomed. This is the current mentality everywhere. Vegas should have remained cool, like in the 60's. More, more more has lead to less less less.
Vegas is indeed doomed and there is nothing that can be done.
Agreed, that concrete jungle in the desert is doomed and it’s sad that it didn’t have to be that way
Vegas will be fine. It’s California and Arizona that are in for a rude awakening. They are getting cut off soon.
Then it is time to cut off the water to 90% of southern Cali because they can use the money they use for the illegal aliens and make some desalting plants on their shores of the ocean instead of stealing the water that the desert states in order to survive need
If no new water comes in that lake is going to burn off fast. Evaporation rates are insane these days
The new name will be the Las Vegas Mud Bog, off roaders will love the mud.
Empty Lake Mead to fill a pond for the rich and famous. Greed knows no bounds.
Vanessa, may I ask you to perhaps ask them, where will the water come from since they say there's no problem. And do you suppose the 1.5 billion they siphoned from lake Mead last year may have, just maybe contributed to the crisis we're having there?
They are purchasing water from another source.
@@mrstrueblood6937 And where is that source getting the water from?
@@johnbriggs5250 where else? They draining lake mead
@@michaelgarcia2440 👍 Michael
@@johnbriggs5250 With some research, Lake Las Vegas has been purchasing their water from a company called, Basic Water INC.
I'd sell and get the hell out before the housing collapse.
to late
Sell? It will all be abandoned like the rest of the decrepit Landscapes everywhere you go in the USA that Americans are proud to call historic, so they don't feel embarrassed by the rest of the world.
Man made lakes in the desert? While lake Mead dries up. WTF?
When mead & powell reach dead pool in 2023. Vegas will be installing a big straw in the deepest part of that little pond, then proceed to drink every single drop lol. IMO 2023 is going to be a scary year.😔.
Summer 2022 isn't over yet, could happen sooner than you think. Evaporation becomes like a feed back loop and the lake will begin to drain at an exponential rate. It seems like it is already happening.
@@POLARISFPV I agree 💯 after seeing the mighty Colorado river transform into a creek.
Actually, isn't the newest "straw" that's already in Mead lower than the intakes at Hoover? If so, then Vegas can still pull water (as it sends it recycled back into Mead) while Downstream users can't get water (cough, Los Angeles).
The number of Farms that are going to be deprived of water down stream is immense and this water is used for recreation and ascetics - What about the food??
Saudi and Chinese owned farms will continue to get water (and export the food)
Southern Nevada takes less than 4% of all the water consumed from Lake Mead. We’re not the problem
@@jc1979af Biden, Pelosi and Schumer will see to that. They all have skin in the game.
It's going to dry up. End of story.
Sooner the better if you ask me
Not really, just build the pipeline from the great lakes, no problem. Water runs uphill, right?
Naw they’ll just build a pipe line from the Mississippi over even the California
@@rellrell2924 hope not. That would destroy the delicate eco system of the Mississippi Delta. No need in the Southwest draining the Mississippi dry like they have the Colorado River.
@@rellrell2924 maybe government can build the water pipeline to ocean and fill it up lake Mead
Nature is reclaiming what was always hers….a desert.
It used to be covered by an ocean, there’s shell and coral fossils in Tule Springs
@@parkdog7571 Those are the result of demolition at The Sands.
The title is a play on words; sure the lake isn’t being filled, but it’s still being maintained at a level to satisfy the extremely rich and powerful. They couldn’t say that “No water is going into the lake,” because it’d be lying about their culpability.
And where do you think that water is coming from even how they say they bought billons of gallons of water from Henderson do they think Las Vegas people are that stupid that Henderson gets their fkin water from lake mead
The whole thing's going to be sorted out in a few weeks it's just a matter of processing the paperwork to rename the place Lake Las Desert
" long term solution " So they're just gonna buy water from another supplier. Ya that's a great fix. 🙄
When there is no more water there will be no more people. That's how every single city has died that ran out of water. And if they are going to sacrifice other water from the regular community to fill that rich people lake then they're just putting a big fat Band-Aid on their problem and causing a wound on everyone else's problem and then if this continues the cities that run out of water just die. Only a little slower. So how do you want it people, do you want to have your luxury or do you want to have drinking water? Your priorities indicate what happens.
in the US they will do everything possible for the rich, you heard it, all they have to do is sign the papers!!
The developer doesn't want to to raise panic with the depositors ! If I'm out a couple hundred thousand dollars I'll walk away better than the alternative !
Anybody living there should be thinking of moving
no can do phoenix san diego los angeles doomed as well san diego gets all ALL of it's water from mead and all electricity frm hoover dam and what's gonna happen first very soon is the dam will shutdown all transformers meaning no electricity to san diego vegas phoenix Los Angeles has aqueducts still but those are drying up as well The huge casinos in vegas have they're own underground water wells but again no water source means no water
That’s where all the water went to from Lake Mead!
What's the developer gonna say? Lies.
Hmmm, not what I heard earlier today. Don't believe it folks.
Glade to see they are learning to not wast water finally!
Like no one who bought a house there was smart enough to ask “what the source of the Lake water” in their HOA agreement…
Dumb money
Here in central Cal, we are building large track homes and water parks to prevent the drought from escalating. Maybe you should see if it will work for you too. We have very smart people here...
🤣🤣
Smart would be not moving to the desert and realizing those cities shouldn't be there in the first place. Smart (after owning up to the first part) would also be selling while there's still some water and your property still has value. Stupid would be thinking you can outsmart mother nature in the long run...
🤣😂
You mean no 1,000 golf courses this year? 😢
doesn't make sense.
How has Cali really handled the celebrities who are still using water like crazy for their megamansions?
like S. Stallone who is #1 of wasting the most water
or cali just NOW started water patrols (NV patrols have been going for 20 yrs)
Is Cali passing laws requiring non essential grass to be replaced with artificial turf?
Good reporting Vanessa, thank you for your work. If I have drip line police driving around looking to see if I water my cacti at the wrong time of day I want to see how ALL of my neighbours are using their water then too. Let's see where this water is REALLY going
That news lady should be nominated for an Emmy for doing that so so straight faced. Well played. Now move to Chicago where there's water.
Oh, i guess we know now why lake Mead is running out of water. Las Vegas has to fill a man made lake for the rich...lol...Nothing lasts forever! Better sell quick!
I smell a land grab coming soon
Rich area, yes, but at some point money won’t help. You can’t buy water that doesn’t exist.
This lake should never get water from lake Mead.
Exactly
Yeah Right
The developers have no control over Mother Nature. If it’s gonna dry up
There’s nothing they can do.
No problem here 😊 just two or three weeks and it's going to be fine 😊
The entire Great Basin will need ocean pipes with desalination on a level that is comparable to the Colorado River just to refill the empty reservoirs.
Desalination is a pipe dream. No pun intended
@@robhogenson8225 many countries are doing it, so no its not a pipe dream. Possible but too many dumb people in power.
@@robhogenson8225 it’s possible to use it. Just very expensive. A 1,000 feet of elevation, massive electrical demand. Canals or pipe. Ocean pumps. Concrete. Dynamite.
Look at that golf course. Wonder how many gallons it uses a month.
Thank you for sharing
Whats crazy is Nevada is only supposed to get 4% of the water. Pretty messed up
Yep, it is all just paperwork. No problem. Look the other way.
This piece doesn't tell us much. Why hasn't local media dug more into the broader issue here? What are people (e.g., officials) going to do as the drought gets worse? How are people (e.g., farmers, residents) adapting to circumstance? There have been many news stories about water levels (e.g., Lake Mead, Lake Powell) over the past year. Most have focused on the dramatic elements (e.g., the marina having to move, human remains that surface as the water recedes), nothing more.
So…….where will the water be coming from? Is it fair that residents of Las Vegas have given up lawns and use way less water while Lake LV residents get to have a picturesque lake and water sports just because people of wealth live there? What about Lake Mead? I guess Lake LV residents will move when the water’s gone
interesting that the video of Lake Las Vegas was all file footage. What is the actual current level?
Glad you asked😎 We were curious too, just filmed it this week and did a video overlay between July and August: ua-cam.com/video/tNiVT5i4oXs/v-deo.html looks filled to them brim & maybe even back splashing into the wash
Lake Las Vegas needs to dry up to keep Lake Mead alive of course everybody knows this won't happen because the Las Vegas dollar speaks louder.
It never should have been allowed!
Rooms down there are not cheap! Keep em.
Fill it with the Raiders sweat....
Paperwork will fill the resorvoir
Just paperwork to be done and problem fixed. Nope, desert is coming . Look on the brighter side. The whole place will be suntanning beach.
Because there is a water shortage we are going to take extra. And because there may be a drinking water shortage we are going to take more to prevent evaporation from depleting the drinking water we use for lake water. And yes they have alternative plans to drill a very deep well and deplete the ground water,,, The water table has sunk 250 feet in the last 40 years,,, so we are going to take even more to piss it into a boating lake and sprinkle it on our golf course and lawns.
A fake lake in the middle of the desert. What could possibly go wrong ? Purchasing water to fill a recreation lake in the middle of a drought.....ideocracy indeed.
NO NEW WATER! Shouldn't be above everyone else with water usage
Why can't they just used recycled water from the treatment plant? They'd expect us to drink our own, they can't bother to have their boats in it?
fake lake in the desert is draining, no wayyyyyy
"We have enough money to buy all the water we want and to bribe any official that objects to us wasting so much water that the common folk and farmers desperately need to grow food."
---Lake Las Vegas
No wonder my water bill in Henderson is so expensive
Lol. I paid millions of dollars for a lake house. Where's my lake!!! 😆
Hay that lake is full only full lake I've seen in many states it pays to be rich the poor will pay the penalty for over usage while rich live like kings
Developer say " none of this will be affected" ,,,,,,, !!! ,,,,who you trying to fool ???
They should be forced to pump the water back into lake Mead. When the drought ends, they can have it back.
Ahh, just a minor delay, nothing to worry about folks move on along.
Yeah, just a minor glitch.
Thought lake LV was filled from stream that runs through LV wash and wetlands
Ghost town in 10yrs
1.5 billion gallons of water so a few rich people have somewhere to paddle board.
You’re screwed Vegas!
Doesn't Vanessa bear a strong resemblance to the actress Laura Dern?
This has been a Gross Mistake to have this man made lake.
Trust me people are watching this very closely now and that God damn Lake better not fill up because the rest of us are suffering now we are watching that
They are just changing suppliers, not going dry yet…
Putting a lake in the desert...brilliant.
1.5 billion gallons of water in 1 month that's it hell Niagara Falls is at 1 billion gallons over the Falls in a matter of minutes
The rich people need to import water from back east where they are having floods.
Lol where did they get “extra water”?
Nothing to worry about just temporary like inflation
Mr. Burns is behind this forsure..
MONEYS RUN OUT, WATER TOO, STUCK NOW ,TOO LATE TO SELL. NO WATER, RUNNING 🏃 🏃,OUT....
glad I left las vegas after living there for a year during 2013-2014 moved back home to the east coast where it rains alottttttt
Massachusetts declare a drought today, statewide. Worse on the east and center of the state.
@@katiedid1851 lmfao
"Hey, I'm trading my Bentley for a month supply of water. I would deliver the car, but the radiator is currently empty. I drank the water." 💦
Construction while we in drought LMAO 🤣
Permanent solution?
Pray? Rain dance?
Diversions..The Bigger picture is Everything West of the Rockies is Drying up....What ya Gonna Do?
The American dream is drying up.
God is in control
That's right people the lake will magically fill from now on
1.5 billion gallons of water being wasted in a the worlds most unsustainable city.
Water is fine don’t worry lmao
You think they learned her lesson by putting the lake in the desert but nope they built another one
Back door dealings going on.
Man made lake in the desert. What could go wrong?
How about stop trying to make a tropical oasis in a litter box.
Just need to cut CA off from the water
Do not send water to California.
Until you run out of water
Seventeen months till lake reaches D-pool ! Prepare.