LAS VEGAS OUT OF PRACTICAL WATER IN THREE YEARS

This is a little surprising, actually. I've been saying for years that water is going to be the new oil. In fact, wars have already been started in Africa about water rights and now water is at the center of serious concern in Las Vegas. Check out this cutting from an August 17, 2007 article (http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=6943263) at LasVegasNow.Com that tells us all about it:

The news coming from the Southern Nevada Water Authority Thursday about the valley's future water supply is worrisome. Unless we act quickly, there will be no water for hundreds of thousands of Las Vegas Valley residents in just three years.

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SNWA data shows drought conditions getting worse, not better forcing the general manager of the water authority to ask the board to spend more than $45 million to upgrade water pumps at Lake Mead.

Those pumps would be attached to the second drinking water intake at the lake and double its capacity to pump drinking water. At the current rate, the water level will drop below the first intake in less than three years drastically cutting the supply of drinking water to Las Vegas.

Weee! Are you glad we're spending so much money on catching people who would probably have never harmed any of us? Not to sound isolationist, but this story is proof that we have more important things to worry about than the "threat" of terror.

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