Its water usage by about 30 . And thats hugely important in terms of the amount of infrastructure that communitys going to require. Narrator las vegas is one of the fastgrowing areas in the country. Its a relatively new city under constant construction. But because its in the arid mojave desert, the challenge of las vegas is supply. Woman all the growth and everything thats occurred in Southern Nevada has been with Colorado River water. Without it, the west as you know it today couldnt exist. Narrator to sustain their growing community with its limited supply, las vegas learned to be extremely efficient. Mulroy this is a desert, and it has its own beauty, but you have to get beyond what youre used to. As long as people recognize theyre moving to the desert and give up this notion that they have to bring eastern vegetation with them and make the necessary adaptations in their own life, desert communities can continue to live. Man the biggest water user in the desert is turf. Turf uses a
We have about 25 of our population thats at or below the poverty line, so you have to look at rate structures that are tiered so the people can pay their bills. Franklin we would love to have Something Like 75 federal money. We do get some federal aid and we are thankful, but on the other hand, were paying for this primarily with new rates. We have increased our rates to among the highest in america. But not nearly as much as if we hadnt passed a onecent sales tax dedicated to water and sewer infrastructure. Hunter that sales tax counts for about a third of the revenue of the department right now. Franklin we got 75 of the voters to agree to tax themselves so that their children and their childrens children could have clean water because were investing in it now. Hunter there were no alternatives. The infrastructure was in dire straits. A lot of people didnt want to believe it had to be done, but it had to be done. What came out of those lawsuits by the upper chattahoochee river keeper
But because its in the arid mojave desert, the challenge of las vegas is supply. Woman all the growth and everything thats occurred in Southern Nevada has been with Colorado River water. Without it, the west as you know it today couldnt exist. Narrator to sustain their growing community with its limited supply, las vegas learned to be extremely efficient. Mulroy this is a desert, and it has its own beauty, but you have to get beyond what youre used to. As long as people recognize theyre moving to the desert and give up this notion that they have to bring eastern vegetation with them and make the necessary adaptations in their own life, desert communities can continue to live. Man the biggest water user in the desert is turf. Turf uses a lot of irrigation and uses spray irrigation, so what weve done here is use artificial turf. Youre never going to be able to achieve the look of back east or the look of, say, california, with subtropical plants, but our landscapes are still lush and use
The most Ribbon Cutting and most Ribbon Cuttings, we keep everybody off limits and then we cut the ribbon and then stuff happens. You cant stop them. You can only hope to contain them in there so were going to let everybody continue to play. So, its been said that, that success has many, many, many parents and there are many parents, many people who have contributed to this outstanding, outstanding effort. We are so, so proud of this project and so thrilled to be able to give a new face to Lafayette Park. This park has tremendous history, from a City Attorney who claimed ownership of 12 acres in the 1860s, holiday hill, how many know about holiday hill . Right . Where the City Attorney actually thought he owned a piece of this. To a professor who set up the first astronomical observatory on the west coast here in 1879. To the hundreds of people who call this park home after the 1906 earthquake, to controversial mind troops. To controversial park renovations. Lafayette park has many sto
The most Ribbon Cutting and most Ribbon Cuttings, we keep everybody off limits and then we cut the ribbon and then stuff happens. You cant stop them. You can only hope to contain them in there so were going to let everybody continue to play. So, its been said that, that success has many, many, many parents and there are many parents, many people who have contributed to this outstanding, outstanding effort. We are so, so proud of this project and so thrilled to be able to give a new face to Lafayette Park. This park has tremendous history, from a City Attorney who claimed ownership of 12 acres in the 1860s, holiday hill, how many know about holiday hill . Right . Where the City Attorney actually thought he owned a piece of this. To a professor who set up the first astronomical observatory on the west coast here in 1879. To the hundreds of people who call this park home after the 1906 earthquake, to controversial mind troops. To controversial park renovations. Lafayette park has many sto