Drying Las Vegas!

I have said many times that conservation will never be a solution to man’s water problems. To believe otherwise is to ignore both science and the needs of man. While the reduction of things like watering grass, washing cars, windows and other less essential activities will for a short time help reduce the draw down of water supplies, it will always be offset by population growth. Furthermore, restricting the use…

VIVA LAS VEGAS ! BUGSY SIEGEL IS ALL WET

Las Vegas and water are two of my most favorite things on Earth. Did you know that it was water that caused Las Vegas to be born? It was not the mafia, gambling or showgirls; it was water. The phrase Las Vegas means, “The Meadows” and the city was seeded and named when the explorer Rafael Riviera, a member of the Spanish trading group with Antonio Armijo discovered rich water resources…

Vegas – A Water Model For The World

Every day we read about water in America. Unfortunately, most of what we read are articles about water catastrophes. Stories describing the kind of contamination we learned about it Flint Michigan, and the EPA dumping chromate into a Colorado River tributary have become commonplace. Sadly, no matter how many times we read about water tragedies after our initial shock we open up our own faucet, and if our water is…