I was just out in Vegas. The condos in front of the casino has a large waterfall fountain going as the surrounding countryside was dry as a bone. Idiocy.
I don’t see the problem with that. It’s an insignificant amount of water, recycled over and over again.
“a large waterfall fountain going as the surrounding countryside was dry as a bone.”
Have to keep the rubes and marks dazzled.....
There is also a huge amount of agriculture in the west. 70-75% of Arizona’s water goes to FARMING!
“Even in the midst of a historical 19-year drought in the Southwest, Arizona uses less water now than it did 62 years ago.
That may sound too good to be true, but it isn’t: As the state’s population has exploded, its water consumption has remained steady and even fallen....
In 2017, almost 74 percent of the state’s water went to agriculture and irrigation, 20 percent to municipalities, and less than 1 percent went to industry — a slight change from when even more went to agriculture in the 1950’s.”
Farming provides very few of the jobs in Arizona, but it uses the large majority of the water. Cut back growing cotton and alfalfa in the desert and Arizona would have a water surplus.
Don’t know the numbers for Nevada.