Well Duh...

From the 'No Shit' file...

Clock is Ticking on Las Vegas' Water Supply

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.

Read the rest of the article on Las Vegas NOW (KLAS).

A major metropolitan area in the middle of the desert and mountains is short on water?! Whodathunk it.

You would think someone would have though about this before they allowed two million people to move there in under ten years. I feel bad for the Las Vegas natives, as they are going to have to pay for city, county, state and even federal improper management of the massive influx of people to the area.

And yes, it is the government's fault. The feds (BLM - Bureau of Land Management) sold off all the land they owned for private development. The county and the cities just hand out building permits like they were candy, with no regard to the strain all these people are having on the areas infrastructure. (Drive down Blue Diamond Road, if you can. Classic example of building 67321200182 homes before bothering to increase the road to 4 - 6 lanes to handle the traffic.)

And of course the state could give a damn. More people, more sales tax and casino revenue.

Nice knowing you, Las Vegas. There is of course one positive. Maybe this will kill off about a million or so Southern Californians! Of course those snobby bastards only buy bottled water, so it will probably only kill their lawns...