{"id":7313,"date":"2015-04-15T05:53:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T10:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7313"},"modified":"2015-04-15T05:53:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T10:53:29","slug":"leaking-las-vegas-lake-mead-water-levels-continue-to-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7313","title":{"rendered":"Leaking Las Vegas: Lake Mead Water Levels Continue To Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leaking Las Vegas: Lake Mead Water Levels Continue To Crash<\/a><\/h3>\n

The last time we looked at Las Vegas water supply, the comments from professionals were\u00a0“Vegas is screwed,” and unless water levels in Lake Mead rise by 7%, “it’s as bad as you can imagine.”<\/a>\u00a0The bad news…\u00a0Water levels in Lake Mead have never been lower for this time of year<\/strong>\u00a0– and this is before the Summer heat seasonal plunge takes effect.<\/p>\n

We noted previously<\/a>, as with many things in Sin City, the apparently endless supply of water is an illusion.<\/p>\n

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America\u2019s most decadent destination has been engaged in a potentially catastrophic gamble with nature and now, 14 years into a devastating drought, it is on the verge of losing it all.<\/div>\n

\u201cThe situation is as bad as you can imagine,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>said Tim Barnett, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. \u201cIt\u2019s just going to be screwed. And relatively quickly.\u00a0Unless it can find a way to get more water from somewhere Las Vegas is out of business. Yet they\u2019re still building, which is stupid.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And things haven’t improved at all…<\/p>\n

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Source: The Burning Platform<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Which as we concluded previously<\/a>, is a grave concern:<\/p>\n

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Leaking Las Vegas: Lake Mead Water Levels Continue To Crash The last time we looked at Las Vegas water supply, the comments from professionals were\u00a0“Vegas is screwed,” and unless water levels in Lake Mead rise by 7%, “it’s as bad as you can imagine.”\u00a0The bad news…\u00a0Water levels in Lake Mead have never been lower for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[220,4152,4771,866,4120],"class_list":["post-7313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-drought","tag-lake-mead","tag-las-vegas","tag-water","tag-water-supply"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7314,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions\/7314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}