Las Vegas Accused of Engineering Massive Water Grab: Is This the Future of the West?

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5. Resorts use closer to 7% -

that's data from the Southern Nevada Water Authority. And making a comment about the Mojave Desert in general isn't talking about Clark County in particular . . . unless Fulkerson is trying to conflate the waste in California and Arizona with southern Nevada.

To be useful in any way, the author needed to stick to her topic - which is water resource allocation. In order to do that, however, she would have to actually know something about water resource allocation. When she can write, intelligently, about the Colorado River Compact, including percentages of water use, instead of making it sound like Las Vegas is sucking all the water out of Lake Mead (that would be California and Arizona, just so you know), then I'll consider this as something more than a convenient hit piece on the city.