Pahrump and Vegas storms and flooding
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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I love the landscaped ‘desert’ look around homes in Tucson, AZ. No mowing, and they were beautiful. Like Zen gardens, or something.
Grass doesn’t grow on trees, donch know.
Perhaps the executive branch of the federal government should relocate there.
“Nevada says goodbye to grass”
Didn’t they just LEGALIZE it?
Xeriscaping. We had that in New Mexico, too.
Stop California’s drain of the Colorado River (Lake Meade and Hoover Dam) and a good bit of that problem goes away, IMO.
There’s always an optimist!
Good. I hate mowing grass.
I heard casinos cause climate change. /s
Pahrump and Vegas storms and flooding
We’re all doomed unless we give the government all our rights and possessions. They alone have the wisdom to end this scourge.
Exactly.
Da be flooding? Hell they need to see areas where flooding
does occur and halts movement and does destruction.
Agreed! The natural landscape can be beautiful in it’s own way out there.
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.
Tell the Casino’s to ditch the water canals and fountains, too? Right?
How much grass is supposed to grow in a desert?
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"?
How about living in the desert? What do ya think?
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.
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