“Recycled water” is a term the SNWA uses often to imply progress in the face of the massive headwinds of climate change and just general being-in-the-desert-ness. But recycled water is still water, and its ultimate source is still Lake Mead and the Colorado River, in the case of Vegas."

According to Bureau of Reclamation data as of June 2, there’s never been so little water behind Hoover Dam since its construction in the 1930s. That’s a problem, because Vegas gets 90 percent of its water from Lake Mead.

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