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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. 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 you...

Mustard. Thank you. Fill out a card, sir. Hello, among the other reasons that restaurants is familyowned restaurant the problem that we have, i have a couple of points here. We sell coffee in the morning. Two, there is always construction getting done there. And as you can see, there is only reference the overhead, if you want us to see something . So as you can see, this is our restaurant there. And there is only one lane there. That would be our problem. I mean, i dont see how that could be fi...

Concrete made it possible to have minimum land so the water can be carried to the ocean in the fastest possible way. But, unfortunately, because of population growth and poor housekeeping, people are putting a lot of pollutants on the street and the streets are the openings to our stormwater sewer system. In an average year, 4,000 to 5,000 tons of trash ends up in long beach. Man weve created a system to deal with flooding but inadvertently created a pathway for pollution to get into our waterwa...

But neither the federal epa nor the epd back in the 90s were willing to take action under the clean water act to make the city fix its plumbing. So in 1994, we started upper chattahoochee river keeper. We filed a clean water act lawsuit. In 1997, we won. And so for the past decade, the city has embarked on a program to clean up the river. Now, with 1,800 miles of sewer system, three sewage plants and combined sewer overflows, it took a number of years to figure out what would be the solution. We...

Melosi if we can find alternatives, we can preserve a water supply. Conservation of water is a way of generating more water. 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 vega...

And burglars are starting to use a very strange strategy to get inside victims homes. Well tell you about the so called snake scammers and the cities theyre targeting. And the rim fire continues to burn an yosemite. Well talk to cal fire and get the latest in the fight to contain that fire. Good morning and thanks for joining us. Im marty gonzalez. Our top story this morning is the closure of the bay bridge. Many of you are looking for alternate routes to get around the bay this Labor Day Weeken...

Roxine rogash. Shane was just two at the time. Yes. I think about it. Everything your mother has done with you since youre two years old. And imagine life without your mother. I mean, there is no simple way to explain it. Jamie parse yonz was also two when her mother died. Naso killed pam parseons and dumped the body in an orchard in 1993. Jamie says the first memory was growing up in foster homes and the murder affects her relationships to this day n Opening Statements naso said all of the vict...

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 use. Las vegas has adopted a drought tolerant ordinance. Were using less water today than we used five years ago, despite ove...

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 to the desert and give up this notion 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...

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 use. Las vegas has adopted a drought tolerant ordinance. Were using less water today than we used five years ago, despite ove...