Vegas Draws Line on Mead Lakeside as Trigger Point to Build Pipeline to Great Basin Ground Water
JUST in case any of the board members of the Southern Nevada Water Authority have become squeamish lately about mining the Great Basin Aquifer to sustain growth in Las Vegas, they have been given a deadline to approve building the 300-mile-long pipeline that they will need to pump the Great Basin’s ground water water south. The deadline will come when the elevation of Lake Mead, the Colorado River reservoir that currently supplies roughly 90% of Las Vegas’s water, drops another 23 feet or reaches 1,075 feet.
From today’s story by Henry Brean in the Las Vegas Review Journal:
- Board members have already approved the pipeline concept and signed off on ongoing efforts to secure water rights and environmental permits, but they have never actually voted to build the project
- That decision will come if, or perhaps when, the surface of Lake Mead sinks to elevation 1,075, a low-water mark
Mandatory Conservation Begins in Los Angeles
Water conservation becomes mandatory in Los Angeles today. New rules:
SPRINKLERS
YES: Water your lawn for 15 minutes per station or sprinkler, or 10 minutes for other types of irrigation systems
YES: Water on Monday and Thursday
NO: Water between 9 am and 4pm
NO: Water Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday
NO: Allow runoff into the street
HOSES / PIPES
NO: Use water on hard surfaces such as sidewalks, driveways and parking lots
NO: Leave a leak unfixed
NO: Washing a car with a hose without a shut-off nozzle on the hoze…
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