GW Ping
Get your own Owens Valley, Nevada. We stole our own water fair and square.
Las Vegas has been buying ranches in Northern Nevada as far as 450 miles from Las Vegas. They intend to suck millions of acre feet of water and pipe it to So Nevada.
They are on a march, and they don’t care who or what they hurt in the process.
Las Vegas has grown into the 800 pound gorilla.
Here’s hoping the courts step in very soon. Harry Reid and his cohorts are behind most of this. Goodman is a straw figure, covering up for Reid.
The old saying: in the West, water flows uphill towards money.
Guess they think you can eat or you can gamble, and they think gamble is more important.
Wonder where all the food for those big buffets will come from? Guess Oscar hasn’t thought this thru any more than Harry Reid has.
Going out on a limb here but wouldn’t this years epic snowfall records end this debate once it all melts in a month or so?
Build a city in a desert, and this is what we get. Meanwhile, we are forced to listen to these Gore-maniacs tell us that it’s due to global warming. Next thing you know, they’ll be telling us about water shortages in the Kalahari Desert being due to global warming.
Mayor must be ignorant of his American History -— “The Lincoln County War” was over water rights. He better re-read the end result.
Mayor Oscar Goodman=Stupid North East Lib
Meanwhile, Oscar Goldman puts multi-million dollar man and bigfoot on high alert.
"no one is going to allow us to go dry"
OK:
"Let them drink Perrier!"
(take that Las Vegas)
Maybe if they shut down all those desert golf courses.......
We’ll just keep it all in Colorado until they can learn to play nice.
The ethanol production requires a tremendous amount of water to grow the corn....one of the many unintended consequences. We may have water wars someday as water comes at a premium in some areas, further driving up food costs!
One would almost think that Oscar believes himself to be somehow important.
He is not.
Not even a little.
Should be interesting in the coming years. I live in Colorado.
Actually, we haven’t had any water shortages in a few years. And growth has tapered off because of the economy here.
Wouldn’t be surprised if western states might try to claim more of the water and maybe even east of the continental divide.
1) Start building desalinization plants and CHARGE WHAT WATER COSTS!
2) Build a pipeline from the upper tier of the midwest, where there plenty of water and CHARGE WHAT WATER COSTS!
I'm an AZ native and I know that our water for 50 years was subsidized by the taxpayers, and was therefore inordinately cheap. There is plenty of water. There is not plenty of free water.
And when Lake Mead and Lake Powell are dry, in 2021, what will Goodman do?Water wars are not out of the question in the parched West.
Why not just let who owns the rights sell the water to the highest bidder at a free-market price?
The side benefit is that lettuce farming in the desert might diminish, and we ended up buying lettuce grown in Mexico—so we won’t “need” to have the illegals come here to pick it.