Misconceptions of Nevada Water Use

SOURCE: Review Journal- two-new-parks-may-add-criticism-las-vegans-waste-water

• (In response) J.C. Davis, a water authority spokesman, says such rhetoric conveniently ignores the reality on the Colorado River.

Utah is home to roughly 100,000 more people than Nevada but enjoys more than five times as much water from the Colorado.

• In fact, Nevada’s annual allocation of 300,000 acre-feet is the smallest by far among the seven Colorado River states, and almost every drop goes to supply drinking water to more than 70 percent of the state’s population. No other state relies so heavily on the river to provide water to its residents.

• Davis says Las Vegas will always be criticized regardless of what the community does to conserve. To some people, this desert city’s very existence is an indefensible waste of water."

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