Las Vegas Water Use: Sustaining the Unsustainable
Problem and Justification The State of Nevada is allocated 300,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water annually as was outlined in the Colorado River Compact of 1922. Lake Mead has a storage capacity of 24 million-acre-feet (MAF). The current volume of Lake Mead is 12.361 MAF, which is 56.75 % of full-pool capacity. Nevada’s economy ...