Thank you! I appreciate you watching and leaving a comment👍 This video was just the beginning of "Behind the Drought" check out part 2 (Lake Powell) if you haven't and stay tuned as I've already begun part 3!
Thanks for another superb presentation, MOJO. Being in the UK, I'm always a little late to the party but this fake Lake Las Vegas has certainly triggered my interest. Just earlier today, I read on some Lake Las Vegas blurb site that, "Through clever engineering design, Lake Mead feeds Lake Las Vegas a continuous supply of water." Er, pumping water 400 feet uphill to keep a pond topped up doesn't sound particularly clever to me. I see now why the wash was diverted underneath LLV: they didn't want all that crap sullying their pristine new playground. Dump the shit in Mead and pump up nice clean water for the rich people to wallow in. Right, onto Parts 2 and 3. My main area of interest is Powell but this has been a worthwhile diversion. Keep up these great posts.
You're right on time for the party 😎 Thanks for checking this one out! They are still developing that area like CRAZY, we go through there almost daily and see the progress. Can't go much farther though because Lake Las Vegas butts right up against the Lake Mead park boundary. Though I'm sure the *right* amount of funding/bribery to our leaders could get those demarcations moved and rezoned. City developers here are beholden to future wealthy out-of-state residents as they claim they can't stop building because that would crush the local economy. Well... so will running out of water and resources. Their thinking here is very short cited and centered around kickbacks. Then they will punish and restrict the long time residents so we can subsidize all the new people who don't feel they should follow the rules. "Through clever engineering..." is laughable, as the project went bankrupt multiple times, and when they did finish the bypass they had to repair it shortly after because they were worried it would collapse under the weight of the fake lake. When I asked the new realtors and developers specifics about how the lake is filled and will be maintained, most don't even know. Those that do seem to "dodge" the question repeatedly. They certainly can't guarantee that water will be there in 5 years, they won't tell the buyers that though! Once they part the wealthy fools from their money, they close the community and move onto the next one. Now they have to rely on city water supply from Henderson and can't freely pump in raw water from Lake Mead for pennies on the dollar. It is going to be interesting to see with all the coming regulations and excess usage charges if the city decides to tax them all for the excess or just say "ENOUGH!" Part 3 is in progress now and we also are planning a trip back upstream to Lake Powell and Glen Canyon later in the year, so that will be right up your alley!
@@mojo.adventures Nice one, MOJO. That place is going to look pretty ugly when the little reservoir dries up. I scooted around the 'resort' on Google and it looked pretty dead to me. I even, virtually, travelled all 18 holes of the Reflection Bay golf course. I live in a country where it rains for 10 months of the year but I've never seen fairways or greens as lush as those. OK, Part 2 when the cat gives me a few minutes and I look forward to Part 3 whenever. Good work.
This a very good Report, about the waste of Water, in Las Vegas. Maybe you can contact Vegas Dtech and work on a Video, with booth of You, since you booth doing good Report's, about the same Issues. Outstanding Report, thank you for this.
Hello Lissy welcome back! Another commenter just posted about that specific D-Tech channel making a video on Lake Las Vegas. I am going to look for it, will be interesting to see someone else's take on this issue. Thank you again for the support! 😎
Still as of today the only bright sot in all of Lake Las Vegas is the Westin Lake Las Vegas Hotel . Fantastic rooms , 2 nice large pools , water slide , beach rentals , restaurants , lounge , coffee shop , nice spa , and good shopping in the lobby . Check it out this is reality . We remain .
Agree the Westin is really nice! I used to be in there occasionally for work back when it was Loews Lake Las Vegas Resort. Westin did a good job with it since and attracted a lot of off-strip conventions and meetings. Too bad they didn't buy up the Montelago also!
Most of the green spaces in Lake Las Vegas are being converted in to "desert landscape" like any other masterplanned communities in the Las Vegas valley! Great Video!! I do love Lake Las Vegas!!
Appreciate you watching and leaving a comment! Thank you for that info, sounds like they are catching up in there 👍 We enjoy LLV too, it's beautiful in there no doubt! The building of "The Island" in the height of the drought is still pretty ludicrous to me, but at the end of the day like I mention in the video- all of us in Southern Nevada are barely a "drop in the bucket" when it comes to overall river use!
Those tires were most likely used as boat wave breaker so waves won’t rock the marina. Looks like those tires broke off from other tires and drift away until they settled on place they are now.
That is what I've been told by people with much more boating and fishing knowledge than me 😂 Seems that some were used to make breakers, and others were sunk to make fish breeding habitats. Thank you for watching and commenting!
This was an Incredible bit of journalism.. I too had started my reporting on the water usage and water waste from this community and immediately got return fire from Other Las Vegas UA-cam channels trying to discredit my report as to the 1.5 Billion gallons of water purchased prior to the recent rains... I even had Individuals come and seek me out at my place of employment to personally discredit me stating there were NO PIPES under the Lake and that indeed 100% of the water was wash water... I never wanted altercation as i was only following up from the reports from I-Team News but boy did they get triggered..... Thanks for providing This excellent report - Joey (Vegas Dtech)
Thank you Sir, appreciate that! I was actually recommended your video by another viewer in here. I took notice when that ABC13 story aired and wanted to cover that specifically. It opened a can of worms... especially the wash bypass ordeal. In one of my previous videos, a commenter told me the lake isn't filled by the wash and that is what started all this, I went down to the wash to look. When I called and/or spoke to the real estate sales agents there, they were dancing around the issue. I didn't want to press it too much because the attitude in there is if you don't like the answers or the prices you can leave and you aren't worth our time. From what I observe at the sales centers, it seems most of the luxury buyers are coming in from out of state and they don't want live in a desert, so they don't feel like they have to follow the restrictions and will do as they please. It's an attitude that is pervasive in that community unfortunately. I've frequented down there for years and enjoyed it, but if our leadership is going to push doom and gloom and running out of water then I'm going to see who is wasting all of it, simple as that. If only the people who decided to buy in there recently had done the same first. Coming in to your work to harass you says more about their poor choices than it does you. Subscribed and will follow along your findings. Stay up! ✌
@@mojo.adventures I was thinking as i was watching this video and some of your other videos has he received a sees and desist notice or a visit from lawyers for that community.
Eh Mojo, great piece, again. Enjoying your content, but still have a bit to go through. Before I had left in 2002, there was a lot of talk about the aquifer and the slumping ground under the casinos due to so much being pumped out. Have they been pretty much drained? Would love to see a piece on that, if you’ve not done one.
Thanks for the support and stopping by to leave a comment! 👍 Last summer the SNWA was talking about Las Vegas water "banked" in underground aquifers, but from what I understood these are not natural aquifers but large underground concrete retention banks. I will have to look further into that issue for sure! Vegas D-Tech did a video on the aquifers last year if you poke around his page a bit. I haven't heard anything on slumping underneath the casinos lately, but funny you mention it because there is a community in North Las Vegas that has been sinking for a while now due to that exact issue and they just ran a story last week on it.
Thanks for the comments appreciate that, means a lot that when viewers find it useful👍 And yes the hood vents are crucial for the old iron 4.0 out here in the desert the way it likes to heat up. It will still outlast most modern engines though- with a little driver discomfort 😂 Wouldn't trade it for anything
@@mojo.adventures I owned two TJs still miss em. Got a diesel gladiator now and I love it but I still long for both one was 5 speed the other 3 speed auto
@@mattbrew11 Well I *might* have gave it up for a diesel though 😂 I like those "Mojave" package gladiators too I've seen a couple running around the desert. You already know though, something about the TJ/YJ/CJ the simplicity and ruggedness just keeps calling you back!
Great informative video! I'm assuming you've heard of Vegas DTech? He's talked about Lake Las Vegas in his videos and was harassed at work over it. 😦. He's got some great content too.
Hi Dawn, welcome back! 😊 I did not realize there were so many of us here interested in the issue and covering what's going on. Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling 😂 I will look for his video on Lake Las Vegas, the only other reporting I've seen specifically there is the ABC13 news story I took the article from. Our local news seems to be all over this lately. I can bet those luxury developers don't want many to know what's going there in the midst of this drought...
@@mojo.adventures He put a video out this morning. He uses news clippings too for his videos and this one also talks about Lake Las Vegas and their high usage of water. Joey does great research and organizes it well in his videos.
@@dawnr9158 I found the video was having some trouble because it didn't say "Lake Las Vegas" in the title but I see it's "billions of wasted water". Thank you for the suggestion I enjoying seeing coverage by other folks and the points they bring up that I wouldn't have thought of!
Thank you WASH3D! 😎 We were glad to see it rebuilding and the shops start re-opening it was sad back around 2010. Definitely don't want to see that part go, we like some of those businesses a lot but this whole "drought" thing is calling for a re-examination of priorities in this town
It just also comes down to CA just doing what is right and use our $109 BILLION in reserves - and start building massive desalination/reverse osmosis water plants along the entire coast and providing CA waters needs - and then there won't be a single problem for the rest of the CO, YY, NV, NM, and AZ peeps. And all of the many Phoenix golf courses and resorts as well - have no excuse for irrigations and water abuse.
Desalination also has its challenges. We need to greatly improve per capita water consumption and eliminate water expensive crops, build more damns & halt encroachment into deserts. Almonds are a joke.
@@mattbrew11 I believe what you said ... entirely wrong (!) ... The CA community needs to greatly reduce its per capita water consumption, reduce and innovate (not eliminate) water irrigation technologies, halt expansion into deserts, and (the greens won't agree) build more dams and reservoirs.
@@kendoslap climate engineering is just as much equal to social(ist) engineering - is all socialist and leftist ... and never solves any problems - only enslaves the masses - as well as BS higher taxes and embezzlement of the population.
Outstanding work MOJO. I am looking forward to the entire series. Liz on another channel lives in LLV. Whatever your mortgage is add another $500+ in community fees.
Welcome back buddy, thank you for watching! I have not seen a channel with someone who actually lives in there but it would be interesting to see their take. Nothing against our neighbors in there, we very much have enjoyed the lake and several of the businesses down there but tough times call for tough measures. Plus this wasn't even an issue 5 years ago so I can't put much blame on the older residents. As you mention, the HOA fees in there are RIDICULOUS though. Back when they went bankrupt last time in the early 2010's, we looked at luxury foreclosures in there just for fun. The value absolutely was not there after all the community fees, even if you could afford to buy. The lake looks beautiful, but you are just paying to maintain the landscape and don't get anything other else for all those fees...
Reno and other Nevada (should be Arizona and California as well !) are having people remove lawns and go back to zeriscapes (desert plants) and rock garden lawns - and no irrigation.
Yep you nailed it, and we were way ahead of the game when they banned new grass lawns in 2004. Most of my youth I cut grass every weekend over the spring/summer. Why would I move to the desert then try to forcefully replicate that for an added expense and toll on the community? It's crazy how wealthy transplants come and buy estates here now and try to turn them into a rainforest then the city comes to bust me for a sprinkler head falling off while I'm at work
That's funny but a guy does have a channel where he's living down at Salton now and swimming in it... maybe he's going to revive it? So Lake Las Vegas has hope even if they go bankrupt a 3rd time and dry up. I'll pick up one of those waterfront estates for 200k and enjoy my new canyon view 👍
Las Vegas Water Authority took all the water from Lake Mead and should be a refill. Increased in population on the desert building huge casinos decreased water. Taking grasses in areas that have habitat. Animals need grass like dogs, birds, insects. More homes are build in the area that is a desert. Dividing the lakes to have mansions are unacceptable. Desalination from the ocean is a must to have. Our states need water to refill ponds, lakes and rivers, dispersing the salt into the ocean.
It's been along time but, I recall the lake being filled and maintained by a 20" hole drill to the ground water. I know they said it would be filled by LV runoff water, we knew that was a lie. I think they had to tap into the lake directly, because the well was nolonger sufficient. I recall seeing them drilling the hole.
This is an interesting point I discovered as well... I searched online, I called realtors, and then asked some agents in the sales centers at the new communities there how the lake was filled and how it is maintained now. NONE would give me a straightforward answer or they just didn't really know. Most just keep repeating "reclaimed water" this and "reclaimed water" that. They have been purposefully hiding this fact for a while now... that raised red flags with me from the get go.
Most of the retail is still empty because of the crash 10 years ago and there are very few tenants willing to pay the ridiculous prices and HOA fees in there now. The value isn't there. Last year they also lost their private water contract from Lake Mead and are at the mercy of the city now. No more sweetheart deals to maintain the fake lake. The folks moving in now are mostly wealthy out-of-state transplants who don't care about conservation or the desert but have more money than sense...
Land is the thing that gives real estate the most value. Las Vegas has nothing but land, so housing prices are artificially pumped by developers, which is why they crash so much in downturns.
I think you're barking at the wrong tree. Maybe you should have started by saying that Nevada only uses a very small portion of Lake Mead's water as compared to California, Arizona and Mexico (yes Mexico the country south of the border). California gets the largest share. 4.4 million acre-feet of water. Arizona gets about 2.8 million acre-feet. The country of Mexico, 1.5 million and us right here in Southern Nevada we only get 300,000 acre-feet. Furthermore Nevada has reduced its use of Lake Mead's water not increase (the only state to do so). On the other hand California who has not built a reservoir to catch rain water in 40 years because of the crazy environmentalists and keeps asking for more water.
Thank you for watching! There's a diagram of those exact numbers in the water report in this video 🤨 I'm glad you brought this up though, because for every 1 person like you (who actually knows the water usage situation) there are 10 people without the slightest bit of knowledge on the subject arguing that Las Vegas wastes all the water and California can't make any cuts because they are feeding the country. Little do they know most of the river water there is for growing alfalfa, hay, and almonds, many of which are then EXPORTED. I only cover LLV first because they are listed as the biggest water user in Southern Nevada (by far) and continue to build artificial water features while the rest of the town rips up grass and turns off irrigation. You can't throw stones from a glass house and all... 😎
Welcome back and thank you for watching Bing! 😎 Seems like it's always just a matter of time before these grand ideas fail. Then when humans intervene after it's too late, they make it worse and worse. Yet somehow Native Americans knew how to live in harmony here long before us. Nature always wins indeed and it favours the wise, not the wealthy.
If the write offs, tax breaks and incentives that make real estate investors so mid mindbogglingly wealthy had been offered, even in a reduced manner to manufacturing over the past 60 years, we wouldn't be wondering why all manufacturing has gone offshore. As a society we've placed our bets on the stuff that seems sexy and juicy, now turning out to be running dry. We got bored with the mundane basics that underpin society and through outsourcing have forgotten what creates real wealth for society as a whole. How to end up with a country that's mostly poor, ignorant , hungry, angry, and looking to elect anyone who will encourage the mob to riot. Hope you like being owned by the oligarchs in league with China and the Saudis. That's the end game - along with a dried up man made lake.
Very well said 👍 thank you for watching and contributing to the conversation! I agree the drought is just the visible part of this huge issue rearing it's ugly head. This has been decades of inaction, corruption, mismanagement, and indifference. People are only going to come to alarm when no water comes from their tap.
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Overuse!! Utah is doing the exact same damn thing. Move to the desert and try and make it Florida! The Lake Las Vegas is a GROSS misuse of the diminishing resource.
It is a bit frustrating in the midst of a drought and water infrastructure issues seeing brand new estate sized lots being graded on an artificial island. Of course most of the landscaping will be made to look like Costa Rica also. Meanwhile, I'm over here with my couple trusty cacti hoping none of the drip lines are leaking when the water police drive by. Then I get flyers in the mail and told on the news how severe the drought is and how I need to conserve more and more🤷 There is so much misplaced energy I don't know where to begin...
A "wash" or "dry wash" is nature's drainage system, created when flood waters fall in the desert and are channeled from higher elevations down into basins and dry lakes. They can be anything from a small dry creek bed to a huge canyon. After a heavy rain though some can look like a raging river! They are very useful for navigating desert terrain for both humans and wildlife. The "Las Vegas Wash" shown here is never dry though, as it is supplemented with treated wastewater from the city in order to conserve water. Thank you for watching and the question, hope this helps! 😎✌
@@M8rray Of course, we thank you for sharing interest in the issue! There are 2 different parts to the water here... The "Las Vegas Wash" (at around 6 mins) is treated sewage, along with "urban runoff" (storm drains) and natural rainfall combined. Being we are a desert with little rain, that means most of the time the "Las Vegas Wash" is just treated sewage and urban runoff going back to Lake Mead. That same water was used initially to FILL the new lake up from dry (at around 11 mins). Once full, they stopped using the treated sewage water (it goes right into Lake Mead now) and they started pumping raw water directly from Lake Mead into the new lake. It is prohibited to swim, fish, boat in the "Las Vegas Wash" at any point in the city, they just recently started posting signage along the banks of the wash. You can rent a boat/jetski at Lake Las Vegas though, or Lake Mead, but I would not swim there and there really isn't any beach area except near Reflection Bay. Also it is a private lake so they could ask you to stop/leave at any time. I would definitely NOT drink untreated water from any of them, the wash, Lake Las Vegas, or Lake Mead. Especially with all the stuff they are finding now!
Well it's not like they got a gun at point blank on the clients' heads, right? I say the morons are those who think it was smart to invest in a doomed location in the first place.
My wife and I visited that area in 2014. It was honestly a little creepy, going through a shutdown casino to descend the stairs to the market level. There was one cantina open, where we were the only customers. Boat rentals sat closed and disused, as well as the big showboats. Nobody was on the lake, but in it, there sure were a huge number of carp swarming the dockside. The water just generally smelled and looked stagnant and all around unappealing. It felt like a little oasis that was about to pack up and die, like so many of the mini-resorts around Lake Mead have already done. Now we've moved out of there as of the Pandemic, and it's sad to see this reminder of just how they're doubling down on the concept, at a time when water supply is at an all-time low. It's shameful, and to us, a pretty blatant signal that it's high time to get out of there before the panic rush really begins and cost of living begins to skyrocket. Of course the richies won't fret too much about it; their lives are insulated from reality by a steady stream of daily living supplies that somebody else goes out and procures for them. That's why those folks will only leave once the very last drop of resources has been consumed. Well that, plus the fact that they have enough money to not be concerned about the possibility of having to move. They can afford to wait until the very last minute when they have people at the ready to handle the labor of moving their possessions, while they themselves board a private jet to the summer home. Unless California suddenly does a 180 on its own water greed, or the Colorado swings into a 100 year flood phase, Vegas and the surrounding area is dead. It's an unpopular statement, I know, but only a few decades ago, there was virtually nothing out there, then boom, a whole huge thriving city? All depending almost entirely on a single river for water?? Yeah, it should be more surprising that more people aren't already wondering why the city hasn't collapsed yet....
Thank you for watching and commenting! Very very well said... the lot of it. Back in 2014 they were still recovering from the crash it was eerie down there for quite a while. It seems it may be on the same trajectory now between the overpriced sales and running out of water to fill the lake. If you just observe this one community in and out of multiple bankruptcies over the decades, it's easy to see the cyclic fashion of elite developers and foreign investors getting rich then exiting right before the storms come. They have little care for the locales or ecosystems they are developing in because they will be gone once the community is complete. I notice many of these developers and master plan builders bounce back and forth between LA - Vegas - Phoenix. All places are facing water shortages and unsustainable growth. Our local government and leadership doesn't care, they just want to put the blame on the residents with more fines fees and taxes. Like you said, the wealthy won't be bothered with changing their habits. They can have Nestle trucked in to drink and fill their pool if we run out. Only the plebes suffer under ever the increasing restrictions and persecution.
The construction industry and economy of building is what matters, not the amount of water available. They can’t put a moratorium on building in that area, it would completely tank their entire economy. The politicians know this so the permits and building continues as usual.
The water that flows through the Las Vegas Wash is water that has been treated and supposedly cleaned up and is returned to the lake........... unfortunately, it goes back into the lake about 2 miles from the intake towers that supply water to Las Vegas. The water, before the Lake Las Vegas development, was allowed to become cleaner due to the sunshine and bubbling over the rocks and rills on the way to the lake. Since the water has now been piped underground under Lake Las Vegas, the water quality has degraded. When the water is taken out of the lake, it goes to a water filtration plant near the lake......... they process the water and send it on to the Las Vegas valley for consumption. This is why Las Vegas city water has such a nasty taste, from the chemicals used to purify it. All of this over-development is due to permits being issued by city entities for homes, golf courses, artificial water features, shopping malls, hotels, etc. Nothing will changes as long as there is $$$ to be made by developers.
Thank you checking out the video and commenting! Lots of good info you shared there 👍 It's true the city commission seems to be in bed with the developers, who are in bed with the "leadership" here. It seems everyone is in bed together except for your average lower/middle class homeowner who is blamed for everything under the sun including the drought. They send out flyers almost weekly scalding residents for water use while they turn around and approve luxury communities with fake islands. It's absolute hypocrisy. I'm willing to bet some of the folks making these decisions live in these high end communities or have buddies bidding on the work load. I agree on your last point, nothing will change will there is money to be made. Developers will be long gone by the time the water is!
This is so irresponsible, to continue building homes in an area where they cannot guarantee basic survival, with water. And to continue to waste water on golf courses. I live in the Midwest and every time I come across someone saying, let's just divert some of the Mississippi, I get so angry! You've wasted your water for the rich, you shouldn't get to waste mine.
Midwest transplant also, totally get it 😎 If I wanted to maintain a grass lawn and use excess water to feel like like I was back there I would have stayed!! I think if you can't live with the desert, just go elsewhere. Life here is harsh, uncomfortable, and downright miserable a LOT of the time and it's meant to be that way.
It always makes me laugh when someone from the Midwest talks like this. Meanwhile the US depends on Yuma AZ for 90% of the leafy greens during the winter months. The rest of the country depends on California for their almonds. Surely you have decreased your consumption of beef? Since California, AZ, Utah and Colorado export more water thru cattle feed than all municipal water use combined in the region. How come you are entitled to our water, but now you want to be selfish with your water and tell the residents here that they are the problem. There are literal cattle corporations from Minnesota raising over 100k cattle in rural AZ using our back up water sources, to ship back to Minnesota when they are ready to produce. Nevada is only allotted 300k acre feet of water from the Colorado river. Golf in AZ uses roughly 120k acre-feet of water. Alfalfa exports in just AZ, UT and CO you 3 times those amounts combined.
@@basedoz5745 Decrease beef consumption? Don't eat it. I buy what little dairy I eat from a local farmer. I also don't buy almonds because how wasteful they are with water. I'm not using "your" water to water my non native plants or golf courses. I'm PAYING for that water when I purchase my leafy greens. Maybe you should decrease your beef consumption. If corporations are using the backup water, then maybe you should address your congress men/women about kicking them out? Oh wait, you probably don't want these corporations to leave with all their taxes they pay the state either.
@@hugelunatic3322 a local dairy who gets their cattle feed from where? Take a guess, it isn’t local. The most water intensive crop in the region. But you are mad people in the region want to have grass, trees and parks and all their benefits to the environment? I don’t eat beef, I don’t eat dairy, I don’t eat almonds. I would absolutely love to cut of water intensive agriculture out of the region and let the Midwest figure out how to get beef, diary and almonds in the winter. My congress people don’t represent me, otherwise we wouldn’t have gotten lifelong Republican Thomas Galvin appointed the the Maricopa Co Board of a supervisors, who also happens to be a lobbyist for the Saudi Company that is also exporting alfalfa. I look at all these corporations and the people that support their business the same. Cut out your consumption if you want to lecture people that live here. Otherwise at least have the ability to realize you are the reason the southwest is losing water.
I love this video, well presented, I agree this have 500,000 Views, absolutely beautiful.
Thank you! I appreciate you watching and leaving a comment👍 This video was just the beginning of "Behind the Drought" check out part 2 (Lake Powell) if you haven't and stay tuned as I've already begun part 3!
Thanks for another superb presentation, MOJO.
Being in the UK, I'm always a little late to the party but this fake Lake Las Vegas has certainly triggered my interest.
Just earlier today, I read on some Lake Las Vegas blurb site that, "Through clever engineering design, Lake Mead feeds Lake Las Vegas a continuous supply of water."
Er, pumping water 400 feet uphill to keep a pond topped up doesn't sound particularly clever to me.
I see now why the wash was diverted underneath LLV: they didn't want all that crap sullying their pristine new playground. Dump the shit in Mead and pump up nice clean water for the rich people to wallow in.
Right, onto Parts 2 and 3. My main area of interest is Powell but this has been a worthwhile diversion.
Keep up these great posts.
You're right on time for the party 😎 Thanks for checking this one out! They are still developing that area like CRAZY, we go through there almost daily and see the progress. Can't go much farther though because Lake Las Vegas butts right up against the Lake Mead park boundary. Though I'm sure the *right* amount of funding/bribery to our leaders could get those demarcations moved and rezoned.
City developers here are beholden to future wealthy out-of-state residents as they claim they can't stop building because that would crush the local economy. Well... so will running out of water and resources. Their thinking here is very short cited and centered around kickbacks. Then they will punish and restrict the long time residents so we can subsidize all the new people who don't feel they should follow the rules.
"Through clever engineering..." is laughable, as the project went bankrupt multiple times, and when they did finish the bypass they had to repair it shortly after because they were worried it would collapse under the weight of the fake lake. When I asked the new realtors and developers specifics about how the lake is filled and will be maintained, most don't even know. Those that do seem to "dodge" the question repeatedly. They certainly can't guarantee that water will be there in 5 years, they won't tell the buyers that though! Once they part the wealthy fools from their money, they close the community and move onto the next one.
Now they have to rely on city water supply from Henderson and can't freely pump in raw water from Lake Mead for pennies on the dollar. It is going to be interesting to see with all the coming regulations and excess usage charges if the city decides to tax them all for the excess or just say "ENOUGH!"
Part 3 is in progress now and we also are planning a trip back upstream to Lake Powell and Glen Canyon later in the year, so that will be right up your alley!
@@mojo.adventures Nice one, MOJO.
That place is going to look pretty ugly when the little reservoir dries up.
I scooted around the 'resort' on Google and it looked pretty dead to me. I even, virtually, travelled all 18 holes of the Reflection Bay golf course. I live in a country where it rains for 10 months of the year but I've never seen fairways or greens as lush as those.
OK, Part 2 when the cat gives me a few minutes and I look forward to Part 3 whenever.
Good work.
great video!
Thank you for watching and commenting! Hope to see you in the next one 👍
This a very good Report, about the waste of Water, in Las Vegas.
Maybe you can contact Vegas Dtech and work on a Video, with booth of You, since you booth doing good Report's, about the same Issues.
Outstanding Report, thank you for this.
Hello Lissy welcome back! Another commenter just posted about that specific D-Tech channel making a video on Lake Las Vegas. I am going to look for it, will be interesting to see someone else's take on this issue. Thank you again for the support! 😎
this reminds me of the failed palm islands in dubai
Still as of today the only bright sot in all of Lake Las Vegas is the Westin Lake Las Vegas Hotel . Fantastic rooms , 2 nice large pools , water slide , beach rentals , restaurants , lounge , coffee shop , nice spa , and good shopping in the lobby . Check it out this is reality . We remain .
Agree the Westin is really nice! I used to be in there occasionally for work back when it was Loews Lake Las Vegas Resort. Westin did a good job with it since and attracted a lot of off-strip conventions and meetings. Too bad they didn't buy up the Montelago also!
Very educational, thank you very much for this video.
Thank you again for watching and the support Joseph!😎👍
Very interesting video right there!
Thank you! It's only going to get more interesting as I look into CA and Lake Powell next 👍
Most of the green spaces in Lake Las Vegas are being converted in to "desert landscape" like any other masterplanned communities in the Las Vegas valley! Great Video!! I do love Lake Las Vegas!!
Appreciate you watching and leaving a comment! Thank you for that info, sounds like they are catching up in there 👍 We enjoy LLV too, it's beautiful in there no doubt! The building of "The Island" in the height of the drought is still pretty ludicrous to me, but at the end of the day like I mention in the video- all of us in Southern Nevada are barely a "drop in the bucket" when it comes to overall river use!
Excellent video
Hey there Dean welcome back, thank you!
Those tires were most likely used as boat wave breaker so waves won’t rock the marina.
Looks like those tires broke off from other tires and drift away until they settled on place they are now.
That is what I've been told by people with much more boating and fishing knowledge than me 😂 Seems that some were used to make breakers, and others were sunk to make fish breeding habitats. Thank you for watching and commenting!
This was an Incredible bit of journalism.. I too had started my reporting on the water usage and water waste from this community and immediately got return fire from Other Las Vegas UA-cam channels trying to discredit my report as to the 1.5 Billion gallons of water purchased prior to the recent rains... I even had Individuals come and seek me out at my place of employment to personally discredit me stating there were NO PIPES under the Lake and that indeed 100% of the water was wash water... I never wanted altercation as i was only following up from the reports from I-Team News but boy did they get triggered..... Thanks for providing This excellent report - Joey (Vegas Dtech)
Thank you Sir, appreciate that! I was actually recommended your video by another viewer in here. I took notice when that ABC13 story aired and wanted to cover that specifically. It opened a can of worms... especially the wash bypass ordeal. In one of my previous videos, a commenter told me the lake isn't filled by the wash and that is what started all this, I went down to the wash to look. When I called and/or spoke to the real estate sales agents there, they were dancing around the issue. I didn't want to press it too much because the attitude in there is if you don't like the answers or the prices you can leave and you aren't worth our time. From what I observe at the sales centers, it seems most of the luxury buyers are coming in from out of state and they don't want live in a desert, so they don't feel like they have to follow the restrictions and will do as they please. It's an attitude that is pervasive in that community unfortunately. I've frequented down there for years and enjoyed it, but if our leadership is going to push doom and gloom and running out of water then I'm going to see who is wasting all of it, simple as that. If only the people who decided to buy in there recently had done the same first. Coming in to your work to harass you says more about their poor choices than it does you. Subscribed and will follow along your findings. Stay up! ✌
I just subscribed to you both. Keep reporting the truth!
@@tiffmonique7154 Welcome aboard! 😎 Thank you for the support we have lots in the works over here 👍
@@mojo.adventures I was thinking as i was watching this video and some of your other videos has he received a sees and desist notice or a visit from lawyers for that community.
Eh Mojo, great piece, again. Enjoying your content, but still have a bit to go through. Before I had left in 2002, there was a lot of talk about the aquifer and the slumping ground under the casinos due to so much being pumped out. Have they been pretty much drained? Would love to see a piece on that, if you’ve not done one.
Thanks for the support and stopping by to leave a comment! 👍 Last summer the SNWA was talking about Las Vegas water "banked" in underground aquifers, but from what I understood these are not natural aquifers but large underground concrete retention banks. I will have to look further into that issue for sure! Vegas D-Tech did a video on the aquifers last year if you poke around his page a bit. I haven't heard anything on slumping underneath the casinos lately, but funny you mention it because there is a community in North Las Vegas that has been sinking for a while now due to that exact issue and they just ran a story last week on it.
This channel deserves WAY more views than this. Good shit. Props on the jeep too. Hard to the vegas heat in one
Thanks for the comments appreciate that, means a lot that when viewers find it useful👍 And yes the hood vents are crucial for the old iron 4.0 out here in the desert the way it likes to heat up. It will still outlast most modern engines though- with a little driver discomfort 😂 Wouldn't trade it for anything
@@mojo.adventures I owned two TJs still miss em. Got a diesel gladiator now and I love it but I still long for both one was 5 speed the other 3 speed auto
@@mattbrew11 Well I *might* have gave it up for a diesel though 😂 I like those "Mojave" package gladiators too I've seen a couple running around the desert. You already know though, something about the TJ/YJ/CJ the simplicity and ruggedness just keeps calling you back!
Great informative video! I'm assuming you've heard of Vegas DTech? He's talked about Lake Las Vegas in his videos and was harassed at work over it. 😦. He's got some great content too.
Love DTech. He's spot on. This guy is a close second.
@@twalatka I agree!!
Hi Dawn, welcome back! 😊 I did not realize there were so many of us here interested in the issue and covering what's going on. Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling 😂 I will look for his video on Lake Las Vegas, the only other reporting I've seen specifically there is the ABC13 news story I took the article from. Our local news seems to be all over this lately. I can bet those luxury developers don't want many to know what's going there in the midst of this drought...
@@mojo.adventures He put a video out this morning. He uses news clippings too for his videos and this one also talks about Lake Las Vegas and their high usage of water. Joey does great research and organizes it well in his videos.
@@dawnr9158 I found the video was having some trouble because it didn't say "Lake Las Vegas" in the title but I see it's "billions of wasted water". Thank you for the suggestion I enjoying seeing coverage by other folks and the points they bring up that I wouldn't have thought of!
Awesome video highlighting how LLV has changed over the years. Love your videos!
Thank you WASH3D! 😎 We were glad to see it rebuilding and the shops start re-opening it was sad back around 2010. Definitely don't want to see that part go, we like some of those businesses a lot but this whole "drought" thing is calling for a re-examination of priorities in this town
It just also comes down to CA just doing what is right and use our $109 BILLION in reserves - and start building massive desalination/reverse osmosis water plants along the entire coast and providing CA waters needs - and then there won't be a single problem for the rest of the CO, YY, NV, NM, and AZ peeps. And all of the many Phoenix golf courses and resorts as well - have no excuse for irrigations and water abuse.
Desalination also has its challenges. We need to greatly improve per capita water consumption and eliminate water expensive crops, build more damns & halt encroachment into deserts.
Almonds are a joke.
@@mattbrew11 Well - you would have the greens hugging you, then hanging you
@@mattbrew11 I believe what you said ... entirely wrong (!) ... The CA community needs to greatly reduce its per capita water consumption, reduce and innovate (not eliminate) water irrigation technologies, halt expansion into deserts, and (the greens won't agree) build more dams and reservoirs.
@@johnlord8337 Wouldn't it be better to just cease the climate engineering operations and allow natural weather to return?
@@kendoslap climate engineering is just as much equal to social(ist) engineering - is all socialist and leftist ... and never solves any problems - only enslaves the masses - as well as BS higher taxes and embezzlement of the population.
As a Midwesterner, I thought I would move west upon retirement. I think we will keep our Great Lakes, trees and reasonable housing prices!!
Outstanding work MOJO. I am looking forward to the entire series. Liz on another channel lives in LLV. Whatever your mortgage is add another $500+ in community fees.
Welcome back buddy, thank you for watching! I have not seen a channel with someone who actually lives in there but it would be interesting to see their take. Nothing against our neighbors in there, we very much have enjoyed the lake and several of the businesses down there but tough times call for tough measures. Plus this wasn't even an issue 5 years ago so I can't put much blame on the older residents. As you mention, the HOA fees in there are RIDICULOUS though. Back when they went bankrupt last time in the early 2010's, we looked at luxury foreclosures in there just for fun. The value absolutely was not there after all the community fees, even if you could afford to buy. The lake looks beautiful, but you are just paying to maintain the landscape and don't get anything other else for all those fees...
@@mojo.adventures here's Liz ua-cam.com/channels/z22yi-g998cFS0PU13Efbg.html
Reno and other Nevada (should be Arizona and California as well !) are having people remove lawns and go back to zeriscapes (desert plants) and rock garden lawns - and no irrigation.
Yep you nailed it, and we were way ahead of the game when they banned new grass lawns in 2004. Most of my youth I cut grass every weekend over the spring/summer. Why would I move to the desert then try to forcefully replicate that for an added expense and toll on the community? It's crazy how wealthy transplants come and buy estates here now and try to turn them into a rainforest then the city comes to bust me for a sprinkler head falling off while I'm at work
A future Salton sea?
That's funny but a guy does have a channel where he's living down at Salton now and swimming in it... maybe he's going to revive it? So Lake Las Vegas has hope even if they go bankrupt a 3rd time and dry up. I'll pick up one of those waterfront estates for 200k and enjoy my new canyon view 👍
Las Vegas Water Authority took all the water from Lake Mead and should be a refill. Increased in population on the desert building huge casinos decreased water. Taking grasses in areas that have habitat. Animals need grass like dogs, birds, insects. More homes are build in the area that is a desert. Dividing the lakes to have mansions are unacceptable. Desalination from the ocean is a must to have. Our states need water to refill ponds, lakes and rivers, dispersing the salt into the ocean.
It's been along time but, I recall the lake being filled and maintained by a 20" hole drill to the ground water. I know they said it would be filled by LV runoff water, we knew that was a lie. I think they had to tap into the lake directly, because the well was nolonger sufficient. I recall seeing them drilling the hole.
This is an interesting point I discovered as well... I searched online, I called realtors, and then asked some agents in the sales centers at the new communities there how the lake was filled and how it is maintained now. NONE would give me a straightforward answer or they just didn't really know. Most just keep repeating "reclaimed water" this and "reclaimed water" that. They have been purposefully hiding this fact for a while now... that raised red flags with me from the get go.
Where’s all the people it looks so quiet 🤫
Most of the retail is still empty because of the crash 10 years ago and there are very few tenants willing to pay the ridiculous prices and HOA fees in there now. The value isn't there. Last year they also lost their private water contract from Lake Mead and are at the mercy of the city now. No more sweetheart deals to maintain the fake lake. The folks moving in now are mostly wealthy out-of-state transplants who don't care about conservation or the desert but have more money than sense...
Land is the thing that gives real estate the most value. Las Vegas has nothing but land, so housing prices are artificially pumped by developers, which is why they crash so much in downturns.
Water, where did all the water go?
Took her Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry
I think you're barking at the wrong tree. Maybe you should have started by saying that Nevada only uses a very small portion of Lake Mead's water as compared to California, Arizona and Mexico (yes Mexico the country south of the border). California gets the largest share. 4.4 million acre-feet of water. Arizona gets about 2.8 million acre-feet. The country of Mexico, 1.5 million and us right here in Southern Nevada we only get 300,000 acre-feet. Furthermore Nevada has reduced its use of Lake Mead's water not increase (the only state to do so). On the other hand California who has not built a reservoir to catch rain water in 40 years because of the crazy environmentalists and keeps asking for more water.
Thank you for watching! There's a diagram of those exact numbers in the water report in this video 🤨 I'm glad you brought this up though, because for every 1 person like you (who actually knows the water usage situation) there are 10 people without the slightest bit of knowledge on the subject arguing that Las Vegas wastes all the water and California can't make any cuts because they are feeding the country. Little do they know most of the river water there is for growing alfalfa, hay, and almonds, many of which are then EXPORTED. I only cover LLV first because they are listed as the biggest water user in Southern Nevada (by far) and continue to build artificial water features while the rest of the town rips up grass and turns off irrigation. You can't throw stones from a glass house and all... 😎
Shows the audacity and greed of mankind in its attempt to overrule nature. Nature always wins.
Professional quality episode. Thanks for your efforts.
Welcome back and thank you for watching Bing! 😎 Seems like it's always just a matter of time before these grand ideas fail. Then when humans intervene after it's too late, they make it worse and worse. Yet somehow Native Americans knew how to live in harmony here long before us. Nature always wins indeed and it favours the wise, not the wealthy.
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If the write offs, tax breaks and incentives that make real estate investors so mid mindbogglingly wealthy had been offered, even in a reduced manner to manufacturing over the past 60 years, we wouldn't be wondering why all manufacturing has gone offshore. As a society we've placed our bets on the stuff that seems sexy and juicy, now turning out to be running dry. We got bored with the mundane basics that underpin society and through outsourcing have forgotten what creates real wealth for society as a whole. How to end up with a country that's mostly poor, ignorant , hungry, angry, and looking to elect anyone who will encourage the mob to riot. Hope you like being owned by the oligarchs in league with China and the Saudis. That's the end game - along with a dried up man made lake.
Very well said 👍 thank you for watching and contributing to the conversation! I agree the drought is just the visible part of this huge issue rearing it's ugly head. This has been decades of inaction, corruption, mismanagement, and indifference. People are only going to come to alarm when no water comes from their tap.
Maybe quit sending water to la , after all they funnel all their rain water into the ocean...
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And what next? Food prices and riots.
When water recedes it’s going to be muddy views. If water increases from some miracle. Houses will get flooded. And home values decrease either way.
Overuse!! Utah is doing the exact same damn thing. Move to the desert and try and make it Florida! The Lake Las Vegas is a GROSS misuse of the diminishing resource.
It is a bit frustrating in the midst of a drought and water infrastructure issues seeing brand new estate sized lots being graded on an artificial island. Of course most of the landscaping will be made to look like Costa Rica also. Meanwhile, I'm over here with my couple trusty cacti hoping none of the drip lines are leaking when the water police drive by. Then I get flyers in the mail and told on the news how severe the drought is and how I need to conserve more and more🤷 There is so much misplaced energy I don't know where to begin...
@@mojo.adventures tell them to go to LLVegas.
They would have to fabricate the humidity!
What is a 'wash'? Not familiar with the term.
A "wash" or "dry wash" is nature's drainage system, created when flood waters fall in the desert and are channeled from higher elevations down into basins and dry lakes. They can be anything from a small dry creek bed to a huge canyon. After a heavy rain though some can look like a raging river! They are very useful for navigating desert terrain for both humans and wildlife. The "Las Vegas Wash" shown here is never dry though, as it is supplemented with treated wastewater from the city in order to conserve water. Thank you for watching and the question, hope this helps! 😎✌
@@mojo.adventures Thank you so much for answering my question. So the water in that video is treated sewage? Would it be safe to swim in or drink?
@@M8rray Of course, we thank you for sharing interest in the issue! There are 2 different parts to the water here... The "Las Vegas Wash" (at around 6 mins) is treated sewage, along with "urban runoff" (storm drains) and natural rainfall combined. Being we are a desert with little rain, that means most of the time the "Las Vegas Wash" is just treated sewage and urban runoff going back to Lake Mead. That same water was used initially to FILL the new lake up from dry (at around 11 mins). Once full, they stopped using the treated sewage water (it goes right into Lake Mead now) and they started pumping raw water directly from Lake Mead into the new lake. It is prohibited to swim, fish, boat in the "Las Vegas Wash" at any point in the city, they just recently started posting signage along the banks of the wash. You can rent a boat/jetski at Lake Las Vegas though, or Lake Mead, but I would not swim there and there really isn't any beach area except near Reflection Bay. Also it is a private lake so they could ask you to stop/leave at any time. I would definitely NOT drink untreated water from any of them, the wash, Lake Las Vegas, or Lake Mead. Especially with all the stuff they are finding now!
You got it absolutely right about greedy, “scorched earth” CA developers. They have been doing the same thing in AZ for years.
Well it's not like they got a gun at point blank on the clients' heads, right? I say the morons are those who think it was smart to invest in a doomed location in the first place.
What should we call the underlying financing mechanism for this greed? Accordion bankruptcy?
Great Reporting! Thank you for sharing with us all your research !
Welcome Kawaii, thank you also for watching and joining in the conversation! More to come soon 😎
Do the proper authorities know about this they have had to of seen this video ,this video,😵💫 is it being brushed under the rug so to speak
The proper authorities know alright... they are the ones signing the permits, doing the advising, and collecting kickback $$$ from developers
My wife and I visited that area in 2014. It was honestly a little creepy, going through a shutdown casino to descend the stairs to the market level. There was one cantina open, where we were the only customers. Boat rentals sat closed and disused, as well as the big showboats. Nobody was on the lake, but in it, there sure were a huge number of carp swarming the dockside. The water just generally smelled and looked stagnant and all around unappealing. It felt like a little oasis that was about to pack up and die, like so many of the mini-resorts around Lake Mead have already done.
Now we've moved out of there as of the Pandemic, and it's sad to see this reminder of just how they're doubling down on the concept, at a time when water supply is at an all-time low.
It's shameful, and to us, a pretty blatant signal that it's high time to get out of there before the panic rush really begins and cost of living begins to skyrocket.
Of course the richies won't fret too much about it; their lives are insulated from reality by a steady stream of daily living supplies that somebody else goes out and procures for them. That's why those folks will only leave once the very last drop of resources has been consumed. Well that, plus the fact that they have enough money to not be concerned about the possibility of having to move. They can afford to wait until the very last minute when they have people at the ready to handle the labor of moving their possessions, while they themselves board a private jet to the summer home.
Unless California suddenly does a 180 on its own water greed, or the Colorado swings into a 100 year flood phase, Vegas and the surrounding area is dead. It's an unpopular statement, I know, but only a few decades ago, there was virtually nothing out there, then boom, a whole huge thriving city? All depending almost entirely on a single river for water?? Yeah, it should be more surprising that more people aren't already wondering why the city hasn't collapsed yet....
Thank you for watching and commenting! Very very well said... the lot of it. Back in 2014 they were still recovering from the crash it was eerie down there for quite a while. It seems it may be on the same trajectory now between the overpriced sales and running out of water to fill the lake. If you just observe this one community in and out of multiple bankruptcies over the decades, it's easy to see the cyclic fashion of elite developers and foreign investors getting rich then exiting right before the storms come. They have little care for the locales or ecosystems they are developing in because they will be gone once the community is complete. I notice many of these developers and master plan builders bounce back and forth between LA - Vegas - Phoenix. All places are facing water shortages and unsustainable growth. Our local government and leadership doesn't care, they just want to put the blame on the residents with more fines fees and taxes. Like you said, the wealthy won't be bothered with changing their habits. They can have Nestle trucked in to drink and fill their pool if we run out. Only the plebes suffer under ever the increasing restrictions and persecution.
Sneaky M F's that's how the pink male greed game keeps destroying the life on earth.
The construction industry and economy of building is what matters, not the amount of water available. They can’t put a moratorium on building in that area, it would completely tank their entire economy. The politicians know this so the permits and building continues as usual.
The water that flows through the Las Vegas Wash is water that has been treated and supposedly cleaned up and is returned to the lake........... unfortunately, it goes back into the lake about 2 miles from the intake towers that supply water to Las Vegas. The water, before the Lake Las Vegas development, was allowed to become cleaner due to the sunshine and bubbling over the rocks and rills on the way to the lake. Since the water has now been piped underground under Lake Las Vegas, the water quality has degraded. When the water is taken out of the lake, it goes to a water filtration plant near the lake......... they process the water and send it on to the Las Vegas valley for consumption. This is why Las Vegas city water has such a nasty taste, from the chemicals used to purify it. All of this over-development is due to permits being issued by city entities for homes, golf courses, artificial water features, shopping malls, hotels, etc. Nothing will changes as long as there is $$$ to be made by developers.
Thank you checking out the video and commenting! Lots of good info you shared there 👍 It's true the city commission seems to be in bed with the developers, who are in bed with the "leadership" here. It seems everyone is in bed together except for your average lower/middle class homeowner who is blamed for everything under the sun including the drought. They send out flyers almost weekly scalding residents for water use while they turn around and approve luxury communities with fake islands. It's absolute hypocrisy. I'm willing to bet some of the folks making these decisions live in these high end communities or have buddies bidding on the work load. I agree on your last point, nothing will change will there is money to be made. Developers will be long gone by the time the water is!
This is so irresponsible, to continue building homes in an area where they cannot guarantee basic survival, with water. And to continue to waste water on golf courses. I live in the Midwest and every time I come across someone saying, let's just divert some of the Mississippi, I get so angry! You've wasted your water for the rich, you shouldn't get to waste mine.
Midwest transplant also, totally get it 😎 If I wanted to maintain a grass lawn and use excess water to feel like like I was back there I would have stayed!! I think if you can't live with the desert, just go elsewhere. Life here is harsh, uncomfortable, and downright miserable a LOT of the time and it's meant to be that way.
It always makes me laugh when someone from the Midwest talks like this. Meanwhile the US depends on Yuma AZ for 90% of the leafy greens during the winter months. The rest of the country depends on California for their almonds. Surely you have decreased your consumption of beef? Since California, AZ, Utah and Colorado export more water thru cattle feed than all municipal water use combined in the region. How come you are entitled to our water, but now you want to be selfish with your water and tell the residents here that they are the problem. There are literal cattle corporations from Minnesota raising over 100k cattle in rural AZ using our back up water sources, to ship back to Minnesota when they are ready to produce. Nevada is only allotted 300k acre feet of water from the Colorado river. Golf in AZ uses roughly 120k acre-feet of water. Alfalfa exports in just AZ, UT and CO you 3 times those amounts combined.
@@basedoz5745 Decrease beef consumption? Don't eat it. I buy what little dairy I eat from a local farmer. I also don't buy almonds because how wasteful they are with water. I'm not using "your" water to water my non native plants or golf courses. I'm PAYING for that water when I purchase my leafy greens. Maybe you should decrease your beef consumption. If corporations are using the backup water, then maybe you should address your congress men/women about kicking them out? Oh wait, you probably don't want these corporations to leave with all their taxes they pay the state either.
@@hugelunatic3322 a local dairy who gets their cattle feed from where? Take a guess, it isn’t local. The most water intensive crop in the region. But you are mad people in the region want to have grass, trees and parks and all their benefits to the environment? I don’t eat beef, I don’t eat dairy, I don’t eat almonds. I would absolutely love to cut of water intensive agriculture out of the region and let the Midwest figure out how to get beef, diary and almonds in the winter. My congress people don’t represent me, otherwise we wouldn’t have gotten lifelong Republican Thomas Galvin appointed the the Maricopa Co Board of a supervisors, who also happens to be a lobbyist for the Saudi Company that is also exporting alfalfa. I look at all these corporations and the people that support their business the same. Cut out your consumption if you want to lecture people that live here. Otherwise at least have the ability to realize you are the reason the southwest is losing water.
Great job, as someone who lives on the east coast, I can't believe building a lake for the rich has such an impact on lake Mead. Sad!
Y'all want lush Midwest beautiful grass. Then move more Midwest. What a waste. If you live in the desert. You don't need grass.
It is risky to imply using water is a crime, directly or indirectly.
PIPE Mississippi river ware to drought areas.