Water Management Las Vegas/S. NV

Nowhere are the issues with our archaic and inefficient government system more clear than in the struggle about Colorado River water and water usage in Las Vegas. Nothing is more vital to each of us. Local and state government have become ever more draconian: deciding what we will do with our own land and our own money, and now with water to a degree that they can simply shut down your home's water if they decide to. This is unacceptable. Water is a common good, like air, like land. Not only is it immoral to make profit off of claiming or selling it, (or to divert it to private people who, for example, run farms for alfalfa in AZ to sell to Saudis or to grow water-intensive non-native monoculture crops in California to sell back to us at huge profits), but misusing it as it has been can actually lead to the end of Las Vegas. This connects to the core ideas about land ownership and government that are going to remain massive challenges to this entire issue until we're willing to look at the basic questions involved. For more context, see the other projects and articles on this site about composting, local farming, and land ownership.