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| A residential community in western Las Vegas with "decorative lakes"
in a desert environment. |
Another "decorative lake" in western Las Vegas. |
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| this image was acquired from "Terraserver.com" and shows 3 ribbon-like
man-made lakes in western Las Vegas, NV. |
This golf course in far SW Las Vegas with its green fairways stands
in stark contrast to the surrounding brown desert. |
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| Another "decorative lake" in western Las Vegas. |
Almost all resorts and hotels have multiple swimming pools that
are open to the constant evaporative effects of extremely low humidity
and high temperatures. |
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| Misters are a common sight around Las Vegas. Here the misters
behind the Mirage Hotel provide some evaporative cooling for those walking
nearby. |
The irrigation of the golf courses takes place just after sunset
minimizing evaporation. Note the brown patches indicating that the
sawn is going partially dormant in places due to reduced irrigation. |
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| With some water restrictions in place, the golf courses of Las Vegas
all have some brown grass in areas due to reduced irrigation. The
water being used is reclaimed water and not fresh water helping reduce
the demand for water resources. |
This golf course in Las Vegas has a minimal amount of irrigated
areas with much of the rough in desert non-irrigated vegetation. Some golf
courses have begun to aggressively change vegetation over to low water
demand vegetation. |
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| An automated weather station monitoring precipitation, temperature
and humidity over a golf course in suburban Las Vegas to help better regulate
the use of water resources. |
Another golf course with the Las Vegas strip in the background. |
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| A green golf course with several ponds of water (water hazards)
located in east Las Vegas. |
Click on the above photo to see the large number of swimming pools
in this east Las Vegas community. The white ditch just to the right
of the business strip has water in indicating runoff from some nearby water
source. |
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| A lighted sign at the Las Vegas Airport with an admonition to conserve
water. |
The Monte Carlo Resort in Las Vegas, in order to conserve water,
has converted all of its toilet tanks from a multi-gallon full tank to
high powered canisters that project at high speed about 1/3 the normal
amount of water through the bowl. |
