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How much of Lake Meads water shortage is due to Migration
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Lake Mead could rise tomorrow if they cutoff the golf courses and farmers. That will happen long before Las Vegas goes dry.
Sorry haters.
Quoting: VegasRick Mostly true - over 72% of Arizona water use is ag-based. No one needs to grow cotton, pecans and lettuce in a desert. False... golf courses have to use reclaimed water. Non sequitur. My numbers stand as cited: [ link to www.azcentral.com (secure)] In 1955, groundwater made up 69 percent of the state's overall portfolio, with surface water filling in the rest. As of 2017, Arizona gets about 40 percent of its supplies from groundwater, nearly 36 percent from the Colorado River, 20 percent from other surface water, and three percent from reclaimed water. In 2017, almost 74 percent of the state’s water went to agriculture and irrigation, 20 percent to municipalities, and less than 1 percent went to industry — a slight change from when even more went to agriculture in the 1950’s. But some of those numbers provided by ADWR are estimates, and it’s hard to know precisely how much water is used in parts of the state where groundwater isn't regulated as it is in AMAs.
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