6/3/2023 0 Comments Gamefaqs stella glowTrue, urban demand, whether it is for residential uses, institutions or for economic agents (services like hotels or retail industry) accounts for a fraction of water withdrawals in the West: public supply accounted for 13 % of water withdrawals in the United States in 2005 and 12,8 % (estimated) in 2010 (USGS, United States Geological Survey 2014a). This urban growth, coupled with strong agricultural water demand, is all the more worrying as, despite a slowing down in recent years, the level of withdrawals from the Colorado basin is clearly reaching unsustainable levels, water use regularly exceeding water supply since about 2002 (Bureau of Reclamation 2012). Similar population growths were witnessed in most Western cities, Los Angeles, San Diego, Tucson, Phoenix, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, placing a serious stress on local water authorities so as to keep pace with a fast expanding demand (Lasserre 2003, 2006), although in the last past years growth seems to slow down. In 2000, the population of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area (coextensive with Clark County since 2003) was 1,38 million 1,9 million in 2009, and 2,03 million in 2013. Like several Western cities in the United States, Las Vegas undertook a fast population growth since the 1970s, resulting in a fast increase in water demand, both for economic and domestic water uses.
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