
David Zetland on Water
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The Implications of California's Third Year Drought
If California's third year drought and fourth year of drought goes on, what you're going to get in terms of actual direct human impacts, agriculture will get in trouble first. Las Vegas is actually spending a billion dollars to build a straw. They call it. It's actually a very large tunnel deep into Lake Mead. And that is because Las Vegas wants to be the last entity to take water out of Lake Mead should it drop below where the turbines operate Hoover Dam. So there's, there's many different implications coming coming down the pike. But as you point out, water is a renewable resource. That means that we're counting on wet years. If we just get one wet year
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