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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 t...

And only until the public sort of creates that will will the politicians respond. Narrator while some cities deal with infrastructure issues, others have concerns about the sustainability of water supplies. Allbee its not just about the sustainability of the assets, its about the sustainability of our water resources. Parts of this country that thought of themselves as water rich 20, 30 years ago, now are discovering that they really are not water rich, they have source supply issues, they have ...

About 15 years ago, surfrider activists were protesting a beach for being polluted. The city council asked the police to escort them away. There was complete denial of the problem. 15 years later, Water Quality is on the agenda of every City Council Person in that local city, and thats completely a result of activists forcing the issue, surfrider and other local groups, saying, hey, these Water Quality issues are real and you need to address them. And only until the public sort of creates that w...

Here and when we discovered these features back in mid 2012, production on the project was impacted by four months essentially. But since then we have picked up and we are moving ahead full speed right now on the project. We are 35 done with the project. And id like to highlight the fact that the sods 117 million we are asking to you approve today to transfer to the project will only cover the construction, the increase in Construction Costs. There will be a need for increases also what we call ...

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 about 30 of what the subtropical landscape with turf would u...

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 about 30 of what the subtropical landscape with turf would use. Las vegas has adopted a drought tolerant ordinance. Were using less water today than we used five years ago, despite over 300,000 new residents. I think its a Pretty Amaz...

Allbee we think that a household can actually reduce 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. Withou...

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 about 30 of what the subtropical lan...

Major renovation projects be that we undertake. We feel we have a strong acquisition stronl at this point between planning recreation and parks. We have not done much with the series renovation projects to serve the additional population that we are expecting. Looking at the portfolio projects that parks and recreation opens and maintains in the eastern neighborhood. We came up with a list of priority projects based on feedback from the community and also our own understanding of the general con...

Go over the presentation. Thank you. Barbara hale, a sis tent january manager for power. Good afternoon. ~ assistant general manager as the general manager said, im going to go over the hetchy system and the benefits that have accrued to the city as a result of it. Our Customer Base and costs, challenges and consequences were currently facing, and the options we have in front of us for addressing those challenges, as well as what that means, the overall picture means for cleanpowersf as we see i...