40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River. It's Drying Up Fast.

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2. Hold your horses.

Here in Las Vegas, we've been doing a fine job in the past 20 years of recycling and reusing our wastewater and cutting down on the use of water for irrigation. In fact, we're currently looking into banning ornamental grass.

I don't know what you're suggesting should happen, but we can't just erase two major U.S. cities from the map...not easily, anyway. If you want to erase us from the map, why not erase Phoenix, San Diego, Tucson, Albuquerque, El Paso and Denver as well? And where would the displaced residents and industries go?