Las Vegas Has Even Odds on Going Dry Within 13 Years

Las Vegas is a city of odds. You get that the moment you step off the airplane and see the slot machines waiting just a few steps out of the tunnel. You can find odds on just about anything in Sin City- dice, cards, spinning wheels, fast dogs, and boxers.

And now water.

Environmental Graffiti reports that there’s a 50/50 chance that Las Vegas’s main source of drinking water, Lake Mead, will be dry by 2021. One of this country’s fastest growing metropolitan areas could be out of water in 13 years, rendering the whole place, for the most part, unlivable. Las Vegas doesn’t exist without easy cheap water. It’s a frickin’ desert for FSM’s sake. The city could possibly build a bigass pipeline to pull in water from far away, but would be hard pressed to do it without actually invading another state- water supplies is tight all over the country (see the fight between Florida, Georgia, and Alabama) and no one is giving it up easy.

Do you think mainstream America will wake up to the fact that clean drinking water is the most precious resource we have if Vegas went dry?
Make sure to get to Las Vegas in the next decade or so. It might not be around for much longer.

Link [Environmental Graffiti]