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Water officials are begging Las Vegas to outlaw ornamental grass
The city of Las Vegas was always a dicey proposition, water-wise: A glittering landscape of pools, fountains, and golf courses in the middle of America’s driest desert, the Mojave. The Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, from which the city draws nearly all of its water, made it all possible. But with the lake shrinking because of long-term drought in the Colorado River watershed, Nevada’s per capita water use remains among the highest in the nation.The biggest culprit—far more than the big casinos—is residential lawns, which draw one-third of Las Vegas’s water (the top 100 residential water consumers, mostly the wealthy residents of sprawling compounds, including Brunei’s Prince Jefri Bolkiah, use up

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