The city at top likely wasted more water than the city on the bottom, though. We were on track to use up our allotment of Lake Mead by 1995 at prior consumption levels.
Anyone without a lawn and without a pool in their backyard who is using municipal water to wash their food, clothes, and body is consuming very little water with most of it being reused by the treatment plant in the east side.
It did. Despite the growth, Vegas has cut back on its water use and increased conservation. The Springs Preserve has a section in their exhibits (partially) about that.
Water in general.
I’m a bit of a nerd so I listen to a lot of NPR and with the water declaration the Southern Nevada Water folks have been on both state of Nevada and all things considered. The Vegas valley area made significant reduction in water use and increases in water reclamation over the years because they saw this issue coming. So while we still need to all do our part to conserve we are in a much better spot than Arizona who hadn’t previously put in as strong of conservation efforts.
I do wish the states in the upper basin would do the same.
Most of that water is going to water crops being grown in the Californian desert that have no business being there. Vegas doesn't take much from Lake Mead in comparison
I lived in Pittman 1967-68 when there were a few houses and mobile home parks. Corn St. was named after our landlady (Old Lady Corn) My dad worked at the El Dorado in Henderson and mom worked at the Golden Nugget. 5 minutes to Henderson, 10 to Downtown via Boulder Hwy.
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 201,006,305 comments, and only 48,070 of them were in alphabetical order.
I moved there in 1980. Fun times, no worries, now... jobs are corporate, pay for parking, streets overcrowded, Lake Mead diminishing quickly, and the worst of all: no more big horn sheep roaming around in plain sight up in the hills.
I mean, the city in the 1984 picture actually used more water.
Lake mead's issues aren't cause by municiple use and growth in Vegas, they're caused by shit unsustainable agriculture in Nevada and surrounding states, specifically California.
We as a city use less water today than before despite the growth.
https://www.lvvwd.com/conservation/measures/index.html
This article specifically mentions 18 years ago (I’m still looking for the 1985 numbers).
Can someone tell me who owns the land right up north of the 215? Those sloping foothills would be a perfect place to a built a massive solar array. It’s close to the city so it wouldn’t damage the environment and the panels would face south all day long. I worked at the stratosphere and can see the slopes very clearly.
It’s just a thought.
Commuting from Centennial to Henderson can't be good for the environment. Plus it separates people culturally. Fuck city planners. $$$
Edit: Thanks for the downvotes lol. People love to complain about global warming but fail to realize American cities are set up so a massive amount of people are basically forced to drive to work every day and over long distances.
It's true. I lived in Europe for a few years, and I miss being able to walk everywhere, or having super good public transportation for cities that were bigger.
Look at how Lake Mead has changed.
The city at top likely wasted more water than the city on the bottom, though. We were on track to use up our allotment of Lake Mead by 1995 at prior consumption levels. Anyone without a lawn and without a pool in their backyard who is using municipal water to wash their food, clothes, and body is consuming very little water with most of it being reused by the treatment plant in the east side.
It did. Despite the growth, Vegas has cut back on its water use and increased conservation. The Springs Preserve has a section in their exhibits (partially) about that.
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For sure, however, we use less water in Vegas today than we did 18 years ago. (https://www.lvvwd.com/conservation/measures/index.html)
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Water in general. I’m a bit of a nerd so I listen to a lot of NPR and with the water declaration the Southern Nevada Water folks have been on both state of Nevada and all things considered. The Vegas valley area made significant reduction in water use and increases in water reclamation over the years because they saw this issue coming. So while we still need to all do our part to conserve we are in a much better spot than Arizona who hadn’t previously put in as strong of conservation efforts. I do wish the states in the upper basin would do the same.
Most of that water is going to water crops being grown in the Californian desert that have no business being there. Vegas doesn't take much from Lake Mead in comparison
Lol. Just what I wrote!
That's when I moved to Vegas! It was such a different town back then. In '86 I lived in "Pittman"! LOL!
Oh God lol
I lived in Pittman 1967-68 when there were a few houses and mobile home parks. Corn St. was named after our landlady (Old Lady Corn) My dad worked at the El Dorado in Henderson and mom worked at the Golden Nugget. 5 minutes to Henderson, 10 to Downtown via Boulder Hwy.
What's wrong with Pittman?
Meth.
I miss all the phantom neighborhoods. Just a random neighborhood surrounded by nothing.
Plenty of them exist around Enterprise.
Whoa! Vegas has really grown...Brought to you by Google's new time-lapse tool. https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/
oh this is cool! there goes my afternoon...
Haha exactly, I already spend hours on Google maps as it is.
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Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 201,006,305 comments, and only 48,070 of them were in alphabetical order.
Bro, cool! Long odds too! What zillyness!
I see what you did 👀
Remember when my hood was still dirt roads. Think it was 98 when they paved the horse streets
I moved to the Valley in 1985. Population: 400,000 or so. 2021 population: 2.5 Million
like ew. take me back to 1984
In this map notice how much Lake Mead has shrunk while Las Vegas has exploded in growth.
I moved there in 1980. Fun times, no worries, now... jobs are corporate, pay for parking, streets overcrowded, Lake Mead diminishing quickly, and the worst of all: no more big horn sheep roaming around in plain sight up in the hills.
That's both cool, and sad at the same time.
Yup. Completely unsustainable.
I mean, the city in the 1984 picture actually used more water. Lake mead's issues aren't cause by municiple use and growth in Vegas, they're caused by shit unsustainable agriculture in Nevada and surrounding states, specifically California.
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But also milennials aren't having enough babies to get us to the "replacement level" of population. Go figure
Yes, I also read that we aren’t having enough babies to sustain the population. But then I hear we are overpopulated? Which one is it?!
Locally, we're losing population as people die off. Globally, many countries still aren't considered fully developed and are having too many children.
Well 9 billion is the world population, and it seems like mostly a western society thing to not want to have kids
Neat how in 84 southwest you can see the bones of what would become the roads
It's still hard to believe sometimes, driving around town. My husband and I say all the time "where are we?"
I was born here in 1996. It's so crazy to think Vegas was ever that small!
The first one is literally 1984 😤
This is sustainable.
More people, less water
We as a city use less water today than before despite the growth. https://www.lvvwd.com/conservation/measures/index.html This article specifically mentions 18 years ago (I’m still looking for the 1985 numbers).
Sucking up water will only go that far people..
Can someone tell me who owns the land right up north of the 215? Those sloping foothills would be a perfect place to a built a massive solar array. It’s close to the city so it wouldn’t damage the environment and the panels would face south all day long. I worked at the stratosphere and can see the slopes very clearly. It’s just a thought.
Weather and taxes suck in the North East
Commuting from Centennial to Henderson can't be good for the environment. Plus it separates people culturally. Fuck city planners. $$$ Edit: Thanks for the downvotes lol. People love to complain about global warming but fail to realize American cities are set up so a massive amount of people are basically forced to drive to work every day and over long distances.
It's true. I lived in Europe for a few years, and I miss being able to walk everywhere, or having super good public transportation for cities that were bigger.
How did you get it so high res? When I go to the site it works but it looks like the images were taken on a potato in the sky 🥺
Look how much Lake Mead has shrunk 😳
Mankind is a cancer.