The Maps and Geography Thread

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Vegas has a lot of ground water, surprisingly enough, so they are depleting an aquifer.

Dwight can chime in here, but technically the ground water is from other parts of the state. They don't exactly love us depleting the aquifer.

Just a plan at this stage. They don't have approval yet. I doubt it will happen.

Vegas currently gets 10% of its water from local groundwater. They've been pumping from this aquifer essentially since the Mormons first showed up. The aquifer is carefully monitored and regularly recharged. There is a plan to pipe water from a separate watershed 300 miles to the north. That plan was approved by the state engineer, which ruling was challenged in court and will be reheard in 2017.

As for the highly treated piss that we love to push down our throats, Outside did a pretty comprehensive story about a year ago. https://www.outsideonline.com/201668...-you-las-vegas

[falafel]

Just a plan at this stage. They don't have approval yet. I doubt it will happen.

That sounds right. I remember some of the push back when the plan was announced. I assumed perhaps we were already sucking some of that water and just wanted an extra portion.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Dwight can chime in here, but technically the ground water is from other parts of the state. They don't exactly love us depleting the aquifer.

Just a plan at this stage. They don't have approval yet. I doubt it will happen.

[falafel]

Vegas has a lot of ground water, surprisingly enough, so they are depleting an aquifer.

Dwight can chime in here, but technically the ground water is from other parts of the state. They don't exactly love us depleting the aquifer.

[creekster]

I'm just wondering how you are sucking less water from Lake Mead. You should just give your piss water to whoever is downstream (i.e., California) rather than recycling it. That is what we do here with Houston.

Vegas has a lot of ground water, surprisingly enough, so they are depleting an aquifer.

[Uncle Ted]

Yes. But what does that have to do with our water usage?

I'm just wondering how you are sucking less water from Lake Mead. You should just give your piss water to whoever is downstream (i.e., California) rather than recycling it. That is what we do here with Houston.

[falafel]

Wow... Y'all drinking your piss water now days?

Yes. But what does that have to do with our water usage?

[creekster]

You are obviously way too easily impressed.

No doubt. I would be embarrassed to admit how much time I have wasted on the google link already.

[Jeff Lebowski]

That google link is very, ummm, compelling. At least to me. It is shocking, for example, watching the disappearance of the snows/glaciers of Kilimanjaro.

Yeah, that is an awesome website. KL is

[Northwestcoug]

That google link is very, ummm, compelling. At least to me. It is shocking, for example, watching the disappearance of the snows/glaciers of Kilimanjaro.

You are obviously way too easily impressed.

[creekster]

That google link is very, ummm, compelling. At least to me. It is shocking, for example, watching the disappearance of the snows/glaciers of Kilimanjaro.

[Copelius]

Interesting to watch South Sandy and Draper go from farmland to completely developed as Point of the Mountain becomes more of a nub.

[creekster]

Every time I read this thread, I hope against hope that there will be something compelling in it.

You look in a maps and geography thread and you dont find the google time lapse stuff UT posted to be compelling?? What are you looking for?

[Katy Lied]

Every time I read this thread, I hope against hope that there will be something compelling in it.

[Uncle Ted]

Interestingly enough, despite all of that growth, Vegas uses less water today than it did as far back as 1994.

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Wow... Y'all drinking your piss water now days?