If they are not feasible due to water cost, then let them die.

Btw, almonds are not native to CA. It is that essentially free water that federal govt provided that allowed CA to corner the almond market.

Also Blue Diamond is not a company. It is a co-op which saw the opportunity Lake Meade was going to provide. Basically took advantage of nearly unlimited water supply that was essentially free to corner their market. The fact that decades ago the co-op drove other producers out of the market is not really good justification to support them now.

i'm all about going in a more sustainable direction - i'm in no way on team almond 100% - it's more so that if we take away almonds then we lose billions and vegas is still a desert and still facing water shortages where having huge lawns is still kinda wild to do


the reason why government doles out the "free water" is:

as far as they see it - there's a "free resource" just sitting underneath them in aquifers

we already know how to replace it with desalinization so it's not a finite resource

future generations can spend money on desalinating their water and in the meantime we'll make billions growing almonds




it's definitely selfish and unsustainable and I wish we changed things the other stuff was more to the guy saying "agriculture is the problem not lawns" which is rtarded because without agriculture there's no economy & widespread famine - yes there's a middle ground but the lowest hanging fruit is asking people not to water their lawn in mid day when most will evaporate and consider having a natural yard instead of grass if you live in the middle of the desert

Agricultural entities can use water more efficiently and still exist. No one's saying they should disappear. having less almonds isn't going to cause famine. Lets not forger almonds don't allow for crop rotation so it's literally destroying the soil.

Kinda shocked more of these properties aren’t in llcs or trusts. Almost all of water consumption for high consuming residential properties is from landscaping/irrigation. It’s more of a requirement by the community they live in or hoa they have and just a product of having large lots in these incredibly picky communities. Majority of the water usage is a product of the Karen’s living in these communities complaining about neighbors grass/landscape and creating stupid requirements that waste water or on the board of their hoa/community making demand letters to keep it looking a certain way. Singling out the consumers is kinda missing the point it’s other peoples actions that usually cause these situations.

As for water not being finite tell that to the Colorado river.

water is infinite with desalinization of ocean water

water in the colorado river is finite and dependent upon rainfall

agreed, i think i've stressed numerous times i'm not happy with the system

but i'll choose almonds over lawns ainec - that was the point i was making - not that almonds are awesome

yeah this is the real shocker - some of those people are very well known as well - my brother is a high end residential architect and not a single home he's ever worked on wasn't owned by an llc just so people couldn't look up the records and know which billionaire lived in that house

I think almonds are awesome, in particular almond butter

I mean i love a cold glass of Almond milk but no denying Almonds are the worst crop on earth environmentally speaking.

Grunching - Nearly all (at least 99%) of the water used indoors in the Las Vegas Valley is recycled so doesn't result in any less water for anyone else to use. So if someone is using lots of water on his lawn, feel free to accuse him of villainy. But if he just likes taking 10 hour showers every day, he's not hurting anyone.

Also, Nevada as a whole only has a 2% allocation of the Colorado River water, as it was divided up back when Las Vegas wasn't much more than a train stop between LA and SLC.

I wish I had known this when I lived in Las Vegas; I wouldn't have felt so bad about running at least a gallon of water everytime I wanted hot water from my faucet.

I'm sure 99% of rasts water usage is for pretty flowers and grass that shouldn't grow in the desert. Not because he's taking long showers .... so yes we will villainous him. As well as Rick Salomon. Let's not forget he's on this list too.

there's a big leap between a phone book, which you can opt out of and publishing someone's address in the newspaper/their website.

you say this nonchalantly like this is normal and stuff, and it's definitely not.

the KC star published patrick mahomes' address--which is public record--then deleted the article and apologized.

probably because... it's pretty creepy to post people's home addresses on a highly trafficked news article.

but whatever, you're a mod, you can act like a ****. congrats on acting like a ****.

Ever heard of "Cloud Seeding"

while this may be true

you'll see that the homes are all spread out

if this was more a factor of hoa largess rather than personal choices wouldn't we see more homes from the same streets?

We need an explanation from Brian Rast as to why he is so exorbitantly thirsty.

Lol. Rick saw this. He turned his sprinklers off. Thank you for saving the world.

Lol nice

I’m seeing something different than you like all of them have someone else on their street as a high user too.

Too lazy to go through it thoroughly but enclave ct had like 5 I saw 2 of which are top 10 Spanish drive 2 in top 10 trophy hills 2 in top 10 a lot of other ones overlap I’m sure. Plenty probably have someone one road down as well in same community. I’d be shocked if any in the top 10 didn’t have others on their street in top 100 unless their lots so massive they don’t have anyone else on their street.

I honestly don’t know Vegas that well maybe what I’m saying isn’t applicable but they did an article like this in my town before a while ago. Like 90% of the top 100 were part of 3-4 gated communities and just the biggest houses/lots in them. The other 10% were like massive properties some rich person bought up a huge lot in a less developed area and created like their own compound.

I seriously doubt any HOA in Clark County REQUIRES grass lawns. Xeriscape is undoubtedly allowed everywhere in the County.

Grass would be a very tough sell in fact in any new development.

So good, LOL’d IRL

I think they're actually banned in newer properties.

My understanding is grass is not allowed on any new developments and incentives are in place to replace grass with artificial turf or xeriscape.

Lawns shouldnt be ****ing allowed in the Desert.

If all the folks in Vegas switched to astro turf and only took a shower once a week would it really make that big of a difference?

Showers make no difference, see my previous comment.