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Being efficient in watering golf courses in the desert in certainly nice, but maybe it's time to question having over 50 golf courses in the desert with an impending massive water shortage.

That's definitely questionable, but a drop in the bucket. Irrigation for all the farms in the desert is using vastly more water.

Maybe, but the southwest of the US uses more water than it has and can import. With droughts and overconsumption, the water supply is at risk. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_North_American_me...

Nevada only uses a small percentage of the Colorado river water (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact). Most of the water is used for farming in the desert.

LOL. Las Vegas water prices are ridiculously low for the paltry amount of water they have. It's hard to get people to not waste the water when the price is artificially kept low.

Las Vegas water is less expensive than mine, and we have in excess of 10x the precipitation and everything is naturally green.

They seem to be able to survive with the small amount of water that is allocated to them from the Colorado river.