Las Vegas Is Screwed -> The Water Situation Is As Bad As You Can Imagine

[Zaky Waky]

HomeGuy wrote in news:lp1233$61l$1 @speranza.aioe.org:

I would prefer global nuclear war.

[rbowman]

I was in Charleston, SC when a severe hurricane was predicted to make landfall that evening. As usual, people were stocking up on beer and snacks for the party. It came to nothing but the next day the film crews must have searched all over the city to find a couple of palm fronds and a roof tile or two for their breathless reporting of the aftermath.

[rbowman]

Yeah, the buffets in LV are a lot better. I understand they've redecorated but the Nile River Tour at the Luxor with all the girls dressed like Cleopatra was fun too. The shows have always seemed to be directed at my parent's generation and my parents have been dead for decades.

I'm LV's worst nightmare; I see the sights, catch some of the free entertainment, get some good food, and leave.

[Jon Danniken]

It's only about 250 miles from Las Vegas to the Pacific Ocean, assuming you want to bypass Los Angeles. That's not all that far for placing in a pipeline, other than having to go through some mountains.

Jon

[Pete C.]

The casino tycoons have plenty of money, ultimately they'll end up funding something like this.

[Joan Watson]

I used to pay $75 month for a bunch of cable channels I never watched and the few I did watch were infested with commercials.

So I kicked my cable box to the curb and replaced it with an Amazon FireTV.

[Pete C.]

You're halfway there... Now kick all that mind numbing crap to the curb, hind some physical hobbies, outdoor activities, etc. It's amazing how much more time you have and how much more you get done when you eliminate that crap.

[Rick]

I doubt it.

Taxpayers will pay for the pipeline. And the one percenters that own the casinos also own the construction companies that will get the lucrative pipeline contract.

[Pete C.]

The taxpayers in vegas mostly only exist because of the casinos. Before the casinos there was nothing there, thus no employment and nobody to pay taxes.

[CRNG]

On Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:42:47 -0500, "Pete C." wrote in

Don't forget books. Real books. Not the overpriced eBook crap. There are lots at the local library.

[Frank]

Las Vegas started as an oasis and too many people will deplete an oasis of water. Plenty of places like Vegas in the rest of the country where a nice place to live got overcrowded.

States are killing the gambling golden goose. Casino's in Atlantic City are closing. Those in Delaware where I live just got a $10 mil boast from the government as attendance is down due to casinos now in PA and MD.

[Ashton Crusher]

It was 114 at my house yesterday. Only up to 109 so far today. The red brick pavers are 150+

[Kurt Ullman]

100% of the water used on cruise ships is made on board. Cities of 7500 in some cases with crew and pax.

[Ashton Crusher]

That's true. It makes sense to not pollute anyway.

I'm not so sure of that. The encroachment of the sea will be slow so the loss of people habitat will also be slow. I don't see how that's really much of a problem for the economy. So every year another couple thousand people have to move, big deal. In fact, it could be a boon. It will create jobs building new, and MORE efficient, housing elsewhere. And if they aren't stupid about it they will relocate to someplace with better weather and/or a more reliable water supply then many parts of the CA coast have.

So? Unless you own them, who cares. People get screwed by weather events every year and much more violently then the ocean rising 0.1 an inch per year. If the islands go away they can move... just like people on the coast.

True.

The only part of big biz that cares is the part that owns beach front property. They want YOU to protect THEIR investment.

I see less nasty weather here in Phx. 50 years ago we had numerous bad thunderstorms all summer long. Now we are lucky to have 2 or 3 of them. It has gotten marginally hotter but it's hard to know if that's from AGW or just from the urbanization. I can drive less then 10 miles and it will be 5 to 10 degrees cooler next to one of the few remaining farm acreage's. The valley used to have thousands of acres of farms cooling it.

[Guv Bob]

equipped with pumps to pump the lake water into the first straw that goes dry.

current areas being flooded are americas bread basket

I don't think anyone is denying that global warming/cooling occurs. The debate seems to be between those (pro and con) who really don't understand how long-term (100,000 years or more) solar, astronomical and geological cycles work.

[Pico Rico]

as was the norm just a few hundreds of years ago.

[Ashton Crusher]

Yeah, I don't get it how people are all worked up of a couple yeas of bad weather in a few places. Within every decade there are floods and hurricanes and tornados and crap somewhere in the US. And changing weather is normal, did people think nothing was ever going to change after they were born?

[rbowman]

The most I've left is the $8 or whatever the buffet goes for. One chilly night in Reno I did buy a roll of nickles for the poker machines rather than sit in the truck and read. I was bored shitless halfway through the roll.

[rbowman]

Unless AC has changed a lot, I'd prefer to fly to almost any place else.

I used to hang around an Irish Mafia joint in Springfield MA. They'd set up junkets out of Logan and get comped for the rooms and meals. The bartender's brother went on one, slept in the room, ate the food, and played golf. The word came down "We don't care if he wins or loses, but if he ain't going to play don't ever bring him back here."

[rbowman]

They're talking about re-opening the very expensive desalinization plant at Yuma. By treaty, Mexico gets so many acre feet of the Colorado and they would really like water that they can use for irrigation without killing the crops.