{"id":526158,"date":"2010-04-13T07:58:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T11:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2010-04-13T07:58:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T11:58:34","slug":"las-vegas-lacks-resources-for-further-growth-%e2%80%94-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526158","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas lacks resources for further growth \u2014 report"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Greenwire<\/a>: If the Las Vegas area builds up all 27,000 acres currently zoned for development, even the strictest conservation measures would not be enough to provide new residents with water, according to a new report by the Sonoran Institute, an Arizona-based think tank that focuses on development in the West.<\/p>\n

The report, funded by the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada and the regional chapter of the Sierra Club, probes the question now facing Las Vegas after decades of unchecked growth: whether to restrict development to discourage people from moving to the resource-strapped region, or to build expensive new infrastructure to make it possible.<\/p>\n

Pat Mulroy, executive director of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, has pushed for a pipeline that would carry water to about 250,000 homes at a cost of between $2 billion and $3.5 billion. The two-decade-old project was set back in January when the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that the pipeline’s approval did not follow permitting rules (Greenwire<\/em><\/a>, Jan. 29).<\/p>\n

Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani, who agrees with the conclusion that Las Vegas development is unsustainable, said planning managers currently lack the authority to oversee a unified development plan for southern Nevada. She said the region needs to restructure its oversight bodies to produce a master plan that includes energy needs, water use, environmental impacts, industrial diversification and transportation infrastructure.<\/p>\n

“That, I think, is the best way to approach this,” Giunchigliani said. “I think there’s an opportunity here. I don’t think we’ll see the type of resistance here that you would have seen when everyone was depending on growth” (Stephanie Tavares, Las Vegas Sun<\/em><\/a>, April 12). – GN<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Greenwire: If the Las Vegas area builds up all 27,000 acres currently zoned for development, even the strictest conservation measures would not be enough to provide new residents with water, according to a new report by the Sonoran Institute, an Arizona-based think tank that focuses on development in the West. The report, funded by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}