A Dry Las Vegas?

A new computer modelling study conducted at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography suggests that one of the West's biggest boomtowns may go bust in a little more than a decade. The study concludes "that human demand, natural forces like evaporation, and human-induced climate change are creating a net deficit of nearly 1 million acre-feet of water per year from the Colorado River system that includes Lake Mead and Lake Powell. " As a result, Lake Mead, the source of 90 percent of Las Vegas' water, stands a 50/50 chance of going dry by 2021.