As southern Nevada endures two decades of drought conditions, our investigative team looks into the recently-released lists of top residential water users from 2022.
Actually Las Vegas residents used minimal amount of water, the large chunk of that went to southern California should, they should take reconsideration of finding ways to provide enough water for themselves, like Pacific Ocean.
I'm slowly getting rid of my lawn, it's a process. A long expensive backbreaking process that will probably take me 24 months to complete. I'm replacing the lawn with a plant called "dwarf carpet of stars" it's in the ice plant family. It's a harty from 29°- 115° it also cuts my water use drastically. With lawn and sprinklers that area would get 4min of water 3 times a days 6 days a week or 12min a day 72min of water a week. With the dwarf carpet of stars it now gets 1min of water 3 times a day or 3min a day and 21min a week. If it were cheeper and less backbreaking I'd do it much faster. But that one section was 6 flats 432 plugs and ran me about a grand with the dirt I needed. I do like the fake lawn, unfortunately it's extremely expensive and gets unbearably hot in the Vegas sun. I would never consider going rock, there are 3 50+ years of trees out front.
That sounds like a hearty lawn you're going to have there! Be sure and let the city know you're removing all that grass, they pay you to remove it! Find out the details from Southern Nevada water district. Good luck!
Substantial I would imagine, but modern life is likely to be impossible without it. Most manufactures recycle their water if possible, water in huge amounts must be rather expensive. Quarterly earnings MUST NOT suffer, so sayeth the stockholders.
@Naes Galaxy you people? LOL 😆 🤣 ...You need to go back to school and study natural resources. Who would have thought that water preservation would be a problem in the Mojave desert?
Because biden-harris left our borders wide open and allllll those illegal migrants are gonna need somewhere to go before their immigration hearings in 8 or 9 years! 😂😂😂
Those people have giant trees, and gardens that require lots of water. They aren’t wasting it , they are using it, trees are a good thing. A lot of the water gets put into the water table.
For what its worth: in 1962 I ran across LTR abandoned stage coach station. While looking around I found tucked in the rafters one about 8 by 11 colored advertisement, which read an invitation for settlers to come to Las Vegas and buy acerage from the Union Pacific Railroad. It emphasized great top soil and an abundance of underground water supply. I was riding my motorcycle. No, I did not take it but tucked it back where I found it.
I live in Las Vegas and have been pissing in the shower drain for approx 3 and a half years now. If you think about HOW MUCH water "low flow toilets" use to flush, almost always having to reflush multiple times, and compare that to having to piss every day almost 3 to 4 times a day, the end result is rather alarming. I piss in the drain, and run a small stream to rinse it down probably a good 1/17th of a fraction compared to pissing in and flushing toilets. Ive always honored the elements of nature, is why i started doing that. To be a male, and to piss in a toilet every day, flushing a possible 5 gallons every time, in a DROUGHT stricken land, is a bit pathetic to say the least... Its all about being a conscious human being and honoring what is sacred at the end of the day. Too many have lost touch with themselves as well as the nature of reality... Ill never tell any male to stop pissing in toilets, let free will be free. But i will say, you are most definitely needing some brain rewiring if you have a problem with saving water in this way...
Just increase the cost per gallon at the top tier and use all the $ for creating reservoirs and increasing conservation. Use it also to create a fund to move water from flooded areas to reservoirs and for desalination plants on CA to sell water to CA and get a deal where each gal sold reduces CA Colorado use by 1 gal. If the Mississippi River and other water from floods could be put in reservoirs and pumped to NV and AZ and NM and TX and KS and other Western States in need that would be great!
Water on an industrial scale is measured in Acre-Feet- how many gallons it takes to cover one acre of land in one foot of water. It's slightly more than 325,850 gallons. That's how disgustingly wasteful these people are with water and their contempt for everyone else in Las Vegas.
They've got to do something about that Sultan guy & his family...They're using far too much water. We'd be fine without them here in Las Vegas. Get lost!
I live in Henderson in a regular neighborhood one day I was filling a baby pool for our ducks and forgot the water was on and when I got home the backyard was looking like Lake Las Vegas. Keep in mind I don't own a pool we use very little water. The water that was overflowing out of the ducks pool won't even fill a pool. Yet these millionaires have pools bigger than our house yet they think they can use water excessively because they are more important than us. That day I forgot I left the water running wouldn't even come close to 1% of what those large properties use yet we still have to pay a high water bill is unfair to the middle class.
California uses over 10 times the water that Las Vegas uses and they voted not to build desalination plants that would turn ocean water into Drinking water. Las Vegas has continued to expand and build homes during the drought filling the County Commissioners pockets with kickbacks besides all the Sports facilities without available parking turning roadways into sweaty walkways for pedestrians after finding someplace to park and the local news media loves it. To conserve water, we make it unaffordable so the water district with all the County Commissioners on the Water District board can have a bigger bonus. Last year I kept a small bowl of water outside and have many pictures of Bees searching for water and drinking from it, besides cats, and birds. So rip out that grass and watch the daytime and night time temperatures rise as all that rock that replaced grass retains heat and kids have no place to play. Those electric bills to cool your home just went up as a result.
Greater Los Angeles has four times the population of the entire state of Nevada so of course California uses more water. Why doesn't Nevada just dig a canal to the Mississippi river? Because it's prohibitively expensive with many engineering challenges just like mass scale desalination? Use your head.
Water issue concerns the whole southwest U.S.The southeast gets tons of water this time of year due too weather conditions .Why beuricrats continue too not bring all that water west is a matter of cheap ass indifference.
They found much of the waste is residential. Especially from people who move from other parts of the country and are not used to the ways of desert living. Las Vegas/Henderson - NV wastes more than other desert states.
Who cares? It is obviously clear that they are paying for the water they used. Now if they weren't and passing to the taxpayer, that would be an issue.
Do we no longer have property rights in Nevada anymore? If they pay their own water bills then that water belongs to them. Therefore they can use it however they want. Who is anyone else to judge them.
when we run out of water what'll we do then. these aholes have the same mindset as you and we're ALL paying for it. i follow the rules yet they keep getting tighter you've obviously not been living in lv for long or are not a home owner 🤫
When Vegas started you didn’t have all those high rise casinos, you don’t tell people how much those places waste and you don’t question why they keep building. You had water under ground that you drained without telling the public. Now you keep blaming small home owners when you don’t check how many golf courses and put and end to your continued construction. How much is fountain blue and Durango going to use?
It's clear they aren't charging the highest users enough for water.
They do these shame lists like clockwork. And mostly it doesn’t seem to do anything but raise rates for the little guy.
They never say how much the casinos truly use.
Crazy... Nobody needs to use that much
They don’t regulate casinos. Who cares why they remove it’s why they did it in the first place ?
Very small amount considering southern CA used 90% of water coming from Colorado.
Actually Las Vegas residents used minimal amount of water, the large chunk of that went to southern California should, they should take reconsideration of finding ways to provide enough water for themselves, like Pacific Ocean.
Simple solution. Make the top tier 5fold more expensive.
Precisely!
We just fixed a leak in our sprinkler system. You don't see water puddling on your property, but you get a $200 water bill😢
I'm slowly getting rid of my lawn, it's a process. A long expensive backbreaking process that will probably take me 24 months to complete.
I'm replacing the lawn with a plant called "dwarf carpet of stars" it's in the ice plant family. It's a harty from 29°- 115° it also cuts my water use drastically. With lawn and sprinklers that area would get 4min of water 3 times a days 6 days a week or 12min a day 72min of water a week. With the dwarf carpet of stars it now gets 1min of water 3 times a day or 3min a day and 21min a week.
If it were cheeper and less backbreaking I'd do it much faster. But that one section was 6 flats 432 plugs and ran me about a grand with the dirt I needed.
I do like the fake lawn, unfortunately it's extremely expensive and gets unbearably hot in the Vegas sun. I would never consider going rock, there are 3 50+ years of trees out front.
That sounds like a hearty lawn you're going to have there! Be sure and let the city know you're removing all that grass, they pay you to remove it! Find out the details from Southern Nevada water district. Good luck!
@@ed7519
Umm, nope...
I don't want the governments money.
Water should be rationed in the desert. Everyone should be allowed to purchase the same amount. This includes the Sultan and the Walmart lady...
Substantial I would imagine, but modern life is likely to be impossible without it. Most manufactures recycle their water if possible, water in huge amounts must be rather expensive. Quarterly earnings MUST NOT suffer, so sayeth the stockholders.
@Naes Galaxy Communism and rationing are not the same thing. You sound incredibly simple...
@Naes Galaxy you people? LOL 😆 🤣 ...You need to go back to school and study natural resources. Who would have thought that water preservation would be a problem in the Mojave desert?
Mother Earth will show her darker side and take her toll
The lack of water has given power to the politicians!
So why all the new construction?
Because biden-harris left our borders wide open and allllll those illegal migrants are gonna need somewhere to go before their immigration hearings in 8 or 9 years! 😂😂😂
Vegas could do with less golf courses and water fountains.
Henderson also has neighborhoods using pretty substantial amounts of water.
The people who move to the desert need to learn not to let their faucet run when they are brushing their teeth, doing dishes, taking showers, etc.
Every drop that goes down the drain is recycled.
Thats recyclable.. the problem is the landscape.
Lawns are a waste. Water lost to lawns go into the groundwater rather than back to the Colorado River.
How do we know how much water we are using during the billing month? We can cut back
when getting close to our limit if this information is available.
@@Cornholio_needs_TP Thank you I'll check water department!
Yet they allow Lake Las Vegas to expand....no one bats an eye
How do you go through all that water if you have a regular family??
That single story house going thru 2 million gallons just from using water inside the house seems like alot.
Thirty-nine golf courses in Las Vegas... I've always found it amusing that people water a desert.
Those people have giant trees, and gardens that require lots of water. They aren’t wasting it , they are using it, trees are a good thing. A lot of the water gets put into the water table.
For what its worth: in 1962 I ran across LTR abandoned stage coach station. While looking around I found tucked in the rafters one about 8 by 11 colored advertisement, which read an invitation for settlers to come to Las Vegas and buy acerage from the Union Pacific Railroad. It emphasized great top soil and an abundance of underground water supply. I was riding my motorcycle. No, I did not take it but tucked it back where I found it.
I live in Las Vegas and have been pissing in the shower drain for approx 3 and a half years now.
If you think about HOW MUCH water "low flow toilets" use to flush, almost always having to reflush multiple times, and compare that to having to piss every day almost 3 to 4 times a day, the end result is rather alarming.
I piss in the drain, and run a small stream to rinse it down probably a good 1/17th of a fraction compared to pissing in and flushing toilets.
Ive always honored the elements of nature, is why i started doing that.
To be a male, and to piss in a toilet every day, flushing a possible 5 gallons every time, in a DROUGHT stricken land, is a bit pathetic to say the least...
Its all about being a conscious human being and honoring what is sacred at the end of the day.
Too many have lost touch with themselves as well as the nature of reality... Ill never tell any male to stop pissing in toilets, let free will be free. But i will say, you are most definitely needing some brain rewiring if you have a problem with saving water in this way...
Just increase the cost per gallon at the top tier and use all the $ for creating reservoirs and increasing conservation. Use it also to create a fund to move water from flooded areas to reservoirs and for desalination plants on CA to sell water to CA and get a deal where each gal sold reduces CA Colorado use by 1 gal. If the Mississippi River and other water from floods could be put in reservoirs and pumped to NV and AZ and NM and TX and KS and other Western States in need that would be great!
What percentage of water usage is residential vs commercial? Drop in the bucket...
Water on an industrial scale is measured in Acre-Feet- how many gallons it takes to cover one acre of land in one foot of water. It's slightly more than 325,850 gallons. That's how disgustingly wasteful these people are with water and their contempt for everyone else in Las Vegas.
They've got to do something about that Sultan guy & his family...They're using far too much water. We'd be fine without them here in Las Vegas. Get lost!
Well, it's not only him using all that water. 😅
It’s okay to use as much water as you want if you are rich or have alot of money.
I live in Henderson in a regular neighborhood one day I was filling a baby pool for our ducks and forgot the water was on and when I got home the backyard was looking like Lake Las Vegas. Keep in mind I don't own a pool we use very little water. The water that was overflowing out of the ducks pool won't even fill a pool. Yet these millionaires have pools bigger than our house yet they think they can use water excessively because they are more important than us. That day I forgot I left the water running wouldn't even come close to 1% of what those large properties use yet we still have to pay a high water bill is unfair to the middle class.
California uses over 10 times the water that Las Vegas uses and they voted not to build desalination plants that would turn ocean water into Drinking water. Las Vegas has continued to expand and build homes during the drought filling the County Commissioners pockets with kickbacks besides all the Sports facilities without available parking turning roadways into sweaty walkways for pedestrians after finding someplace to park and the local news media loves it. To conserve water, we make it unaffordable so the water district with all the County Commissioners on the Water District board can have a bigger bonus. Last year I kept a small bowl of water outside and have many pictures of Bees searching for water and drinking from it, besides cats, and birds. So rip out that grass and watch the daytime and night time temperatures rise as all that rock that replaced grass retains heat and kids have no place to play. Those electric bills to cool your home just went up as a result.
Greater Los Angeles has four times the population of the entire state of Nevada so of course California uses more water. Why doesn't Nevada just dig a canal to the Mississippi river? Because it's prohibitively expensive with many engineering challenges just like mass scale desalination? Use your head.
Vegas will just have to learn the hard way - when there is no water period!
That sounds like Alice Walton! No surprise there!
With El Nino. More rain for vegas this summer.
Golf clubs they don’t use but they waist water as crazies but oh no it’s the residents fault 🤐🙅🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🙆🏻♂️🤮
Those casinos …..
Residents waste more water. Golf courses, and Hotels have conservation technologies. (Casinos don't use water.)
@@ed7519 you’re probably one of them of course 🤔🫣😑🤫🫠🤣😂
Or you are a golf player it’s ok I understand
Water issue concerns the whole southwest U.S.The southeast gets tons of water this time of year due too weather conditions .Why beuricrats continue too not bring all that water west is a matter of cheap ass indifference.
Spanish trails not spans oaks
Billionaires are going to billionaire.
The rich and celebs also casinos and golf courses. All need to do there part!
They found much of the waste is residential. Especially from people who move from other parts of the country and are not used to the ways of desert living. Las Vegas/Henderson - NV wastes more than other desert states.
Water waste and yet Las Vegas wants to build a baseball ball stadium
Baseball stadium doesn't waste water. 😒 Building it on Las Vegas Blvd and less than 8 miles from another stadium, is a dumb idea. 😂
Eggggsactleeeeeee
Can we talk about the golf courses and businesses the use Hugh amounts of water.
most golf courses use reclaimed water
@@ThinkHarderr Yet they are still gutting out the grass?
No they don’t.
Think harder that is a lie they started gutting them but they still have another 100 golf courses to go.
@@anthonymartinez4307 it’s not a lie buddy
Who cares? It is obviously clear that they are paying for the water they used. Now if they weren't and passing to the taxpayer, that would be an issue.
Do we no longer have property rights in Nevada anymore? If they pay their own water bills then that water belongs to them. Therefore they can use it however they want. Who is anyone else to judge them.
You will be the first to cry like a baby when the river runs dry...get a clue
when we run out of water what'll we do then. these aholes have the same mindset as you and we're ALL paying for it. i follow the rules yet they keep getting tighter
you've obviously not been living in lv for long or are not a home owner 🤫
Yet nothing is said about the 11.5 Billion gallons of water released from Lake Mead over a six month period last year, to Mexico!
Your city wasted more than Mexico with one casino. How about the casinos.
@@anthonymartinez4307 got any proof racist
@@anthonymartinez4307At least with the casinos the local economy get somewhat of a return, when it goes to Mexico we get nothing.
When Vegas started you didn’t have all those high rise casinos, you don’t tell people how much those places waste and you don’t question why they keep building. You had water under ground that you drained without telling the public. Now you keep blaming small home owners when you don’t check how many golf courses and put and end to your continued construction. How much is fountain blue and Durango going to use?
This planet is filled with water, Vegas just need to figure out what to do about getting it there and that house is big as fck
Dana White should slap the reporter.
Get a lawnmower with a juicer on the back