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By Tovin Lapan (contact) 
Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 | 12:04 p.m.
Future demands on the Colorado River water supply due to projected population growth far outweigh supply, according to a highly anticipated Department of the Interior study released Wednesday. The report, The Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study, took three years to complete and analyzes future water supply and demand possibilities based on variables such as projected climate changes climate and varying levels of growth in communities, agriculture and business in the seven Colorado River Basin states – Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. The study projects water supply and demand imbalances throughout the Colorado River ...
Not to worry...mother nature will have reduced the human population substantially 50 years from now.
No kidding. Really. There needed to be a study to come to this obvious conclusion. Even so, this study will go ignored in NV. Builders will still build homes that no on will ever live in and casinos need their water themed attractions and water slides parks. Certainly the citizens will enjoy paying ever increasing water bills. You can even read about it in the LAS VEGAS SUN almost every day.
Stay thirsty my friends.
Las Vegas is a model of water conservation compared with Arizona and California. Until the cost of water is such to force people to conserve, they won't.
Increasing the cost of water use is NOT the only way to make people conscious of the problem.
Rationing is much more effective. I've been through that in the past in California. Believe me, it is the inconvenience of when you can flush, when you can do laundry, using dirty water for washing dishes, not watering lawns at all, not taking baths, when you can take a shower only and turning the water off until you rinse.
You get the message real fast and it changes your habits for a very long time, if not for life.
Just increasing rates is an excuse to complain about rates and doesn't go much further, unless you cannot afford the costs and are forced to conserve.
As Salazar implied, many of the large scale water transport and augmentation projects identified in the report are tricky technically and politically. Even the more modest among them can be financially debilitating for water utilities, their bond investors and customers alike. Ceres recently highlighted these investment risks in a new report on the water sector: http://bit.ly/RrzUF7