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Due to climate change, Nevada says goodbye to grass
CBS News ^ | AUGUST 7, 2022

Posted on 08/09/2022 6:32:53 AM PDT by SJackson

In Las Vegas, Nevada, it's come to this: climate change has helped make water ever more scarce, so under a new Nevada law, the grass has got to go. "When we look at outdoor water use in Southern Nevada, landscaping far and away is the largest water user, and of that, it's grass," said Bronson Mack of the Las Vegas Water Authority.

The city's already pulled up about four million square feet of grass on public property so far this year, because thirsty green parkways are something they just can't afford anymore. "The grass that you see behind me is not long for this world," Mack told correspondent Tracy Smith. "In fact, within the next couple of months to a year, this grass will be completely eliminated, and it'll be replaced with drip-irrigated trees and plants."

And every drip counts. So, water waste investigators (also known as water cops) patrol the neighborhoods, taking note of who's watering when, and how much of that water goes down the drain

Living through the summer of '22 has made climate change harder to deny, whether here in bone-dry Nevada, or in the Caribbean, where rampant seaweed growth is choking beaches; or Kentucky, where too much water created a tragedy that's still unfolding.

But it seems there are still those who could use convincing that climate change has become a climate emergency.

Last spring a group of scientists chained themselves to a Los Angeles bank in protest over the lack of action. "We're going to lose everything, and we're not joking," said one protester, Dr. Peter Kalmus. "We're not lying, we're not exaggerating. This is so bad, everyone."

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To: al_c

I love the landscaped ‘desert’ look around homes in Tucson, AZ. No mowing, and they were beautiful. Like Zen gardens, or something.


21 posted on 08/09/2022 6:57:25 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: SJackson

Grass doesn’t grow on trees, donch know.


22 posted on 08/09/2022 6:58:10 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: Varda

Perhaps the executive branch of the federal government should relocate there.


23 posted on 08/09/2022 7:01:01 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: SJackson

“Nevada says goodbye to grass”

Didn’t they just LEGALIZE it?


24 posted on 08/09/2022 7:01:36 AM PDT by BobL (The Globalists/Neocons desperately want Ukraine to win...makes it easy for me to choose a side)
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To: Mr. K

Xeriscaping. We had that in New Mexico, too.


25 posted on 08/09/2022 7:01:38 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: SJackson

Stop California’s drain of the Colorado River (Lake Meade and Hoover Dam) and a good bit of that problem goes away, IMO.


26 posted on 08/09/2022 7:01:49 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

There’s always an optimist!


27 posted on 08/09/2022 7:01:59 AM PDT by Varda
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To: SJackson

Good. I hate mowing grass.


28 posted on 08/09/2022 7:03:21 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: SJackson

I heard casinos cause climate change. /s


29 posted on 08/09/2022 7:07:00 AM PDT by Psycho_Runner (Have a good day, unless you have other plans.)
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To: SJackson

Pahrump and Vegas storms and flooding

30 posted on 08/09/2022 7:09:23 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: SJackson

We’re all doomed unless we give the government all our rights and possessions. They alone have the wisdom to end this scourge.


31 posted on 08/09/2022 7:09:28 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: SJackson
Not a climate emergency, simply desert town growing exponentially in an area with inadequate water supplies. Said water supply, the Colorado River, being shared with numerous other cities.

Exactly.

32 posted on 08/09/2022 7:11:32 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
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Da be flooding? Hell they need to see areas where flooding
does occur and halts movement and does destruction.


33 posted on 08/09/2022 7:14:04 AM PDT by deport
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To: Mr. K

Agreed! The natural landscape can be beautiful in it’s own way out there.


34 posted on 08/09/2022 7:20:24 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: rx

Exactly. If they want me to believe them, they’ll have to demonstrate to me that they have an understanding of the system, their predictions have to start coming true.

Remember the eclipse of 2016? They told us precisely when and where the total eclipse would occur with precision. That demonstrates an understanding of the system.

Want to demonstrate an understanding of the climate system? Starting in June of next year, CORRECTLY predict when and where all hurricanes for next year make landfall and their category. I’d even give them a break. Predict time to withing one week; predict location within 100 miles; predict category +/- 1.


35 posted on 08/09/2022 7:21:55 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, BY FAR, is that almost all of big media is agenda-driven, not-truth driven.)
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To: SJackson

Tell the Casino’s to ditch the water canals and fountains, too? Right?


36 posted on 08/09/2022 7:23:43 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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To: SJackson

How much grass is supposed to grow in a desert?


37 posted on 08/09/2022 7:24:32 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: SJackson
And...the effect on wildlife and insect life?

And...grass is to be replaced with what? Artificial turf? Who pays for that? Or just leave a whole lot of exposed dirt and soil? Can they say "erosion"?

38 posted on 08/09/2022 7:24:40 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
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To: SJackson

How about living in the desert? What do ya think?


39 posted on 08/09/2022 7:27:10 AM PDT by North Coast Conservative (MAGA , Chlymidia will never be my president)
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To: SJackson

See BS pushing the BS narrative again.

As far as Nevada, seems the people are spoiled. Nevada is desert, basically. So what do they expect without all the technological help? They’re not getting worse, they’re just going back to the nature it is.


40 posted on 08/09/2022 7:27:47 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV.)
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