this reminds me of the Sam Kinison bit about world hunger.

"GET OUT OF THE DESERT!"

"WE'LL TAKE YOU TO WHERE THE FOOD (WATER) IS!"

Still seems like a good idea to me.

Rasts Property is .39 acres. How the **** is he using that much water? what a wasteful person.

Pretty impressive IMO.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-veg...rvation-grass/

Rast uses more water on .39 acres (2.4 million) than Floyd Mayweather. I would imagine Mayweather has a giant mansion.

at that small a property then perhaps we should lookup his electricity bill - dude could have the mother of all hydroponics weed facilities - something that would make a bond villain proud

This!!

I feel the water authority in Vegas would be better off pricing water very high for what goes into a residence, but then giving a big credit for each gallon that goes back into the sewer system from the residence.

That way if you take 12 hour showers and flush your toilet you aren't really wasting all that much water since it is recycled, so you would just pay a minimal amount that covers the processing and transportation of the water, but if it isn't going back into the system then it is really expensive to use.

It is unbelievable what southern Nevada (mostly Vegas area) has done with so little water.

It is one of the most impressive, effective, and least talked about government programs ever. Everyone thinks of Vegas as the city of excess (for mostly good reasons) but when it comes to water, Vegas is probably the most efficient and conservation minded city in the world. No city does more with less.

Words do not do it justice.

Southern Nevada is providing water to well over a million people based off of an allocation that was meant for a little, rural trainstop in the middle of nowhere in the early 1900s.

****ing Marshall Sylver is on that list. How the **** is that man rich enough to have a $6 million mansion? Really.

this is a thread topic i didn't see coming

I hope this doesn't mean we'll see more of his hose.

Saying "importing meat is bad for the environment" while not eating imported meat is perfectly fine and shows that you have integrity in your own beliefs, and not virtue signaling. Saying "imported meat is bad for the environment" and then having your own secret supply of kobe steaks for personal consumption is hypocritical virtue signaling . If these numbers are correct and Rast is top 10 water waster then hes definitely a virtue signaling hypocrite if he is known for preaching environmentalism.

Its about whether your statements align with your own actions or not.

Brian Rast - preaching environmentalism while being a water hog

Bryn Kenney - preaching vegan diet to his horses while filling his tum tum with wagyu and sushi

scrolled through all the pages and not 1 Rast water photoshop

this place sucks ass now and is basically reddit-lite

weird i don't see your sick photoshop contribution, can you please link to it?

Right, but you don't know what my habits are. Leo Dicaprio flying private jet to espouse saving the environment is clearly virtue-signalling, but that doesn't change the environment from being 'a worthy cause', and the truth or falsehood of eating imported meat being bad for the environment is not affected by whether or not the person saying it does or doesn't eat meat. We can preach less driving, for example, while still appreciating the necessity of driving sometimes, particularly when public transport is both expensive and awful, as it is in the UK and probably US too. The value of a statement shouldn't be subject to who is saying it and what they do with their own actions, and to refuse to do something someone else is saying because they appear not to align their actions with their own words is just an excuse, and a lazy one at that. The truth is that we are all, to differing degrees and in different ways, hypocrites, and there absolutely must be some space for 'do as I say, not as I do', even before we consider extenuating circumstances such as, for example, health requirements that someone needs to eat meat.

Why are these high net worth individuals buying these houses with their name as the listed owner? There are a few that did as an LLC, but none that have their home in the name of a trust.. Could they have just edited this out? I'm nowhere near these guys in NW but even I put my residence in a trust and the owner of record is "My Name Street Name Residential Trust". I did this under the advisement of my Financial/Asset Protection advisor but I'd imagine they have just as or better advice than what I get, so why are none of theirs registered to a Trust?

.... 'cause they got " Lawyers, Guns & Money" ?

Being so vocal about climate change while living like this is the height of hypocrisy.

Rules for thee, not for me

Rafty

Good thing is it falls from the sky

Not so much in Vegas.

The issue is that Las Vegas doesn’t charge high enough rates for water. That has led to part of the building boom the past 30 years.

I've been led to believe that the history of the lawn is that it was a demonstration of wealth. To have arable land that wasn't getting used for agriculture and to show it. It's the nature equivalent of going up to a homeless person and setting money on fire in front of them.