{"id":414665,"date":"2021-04-12T15:58:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=414665"},"modified":"2021-04-12T15:58:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T19:58:43","slug":"las-vegas-moves-to-ban-certain-types-of-grass-in-conservation-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/las-vegas-moves-to-ban-certain-types-of-grass-in-conservation-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Moves To Ban Certain Types Of Grass In Conservation Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flas-vegas-moves-to-ban-certain-types-of-grass-in-conservation-effort%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=414665&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1526.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Authorities in the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, are attempting to remove \u201cnon-functional turf\u201d in order to conserve water in the desert region.<\/p>\n<p>The city might be known for its decadent displays and lavish lifestyle, but water officials in the area are trying to get residents to limit their use of water and lessen the negative impact that droughts can have on the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Nevada Water Authority\u2019s 2020 Integrated Resource Planning Advisory Committee released its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snwa.com\/universal\/pdfjs\/?file=\/assets\/pdf\/water-resource-plan-2020.pdf#page=41\">recommendations<\/a> for what actions should be taken in order to increase conservation efforts in the future. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snwa.com\/universal\/pdfjs\/?file=\/assets\/pdf\/water-resource-plan-2020.pdf#page=41\">reported<\/a> that its priority areas include \u201ctargeting the reduction of non-functional turf and limiting turf installation in new development. The report stated that as of 2019, around 5,000 acres of \u201cnon-functional turf\u201d are in the Southern Nevada Water Agency\u2019s service area. The turf is \u201cpredominantly located in streetscapes, common areas and commercial frontage.\u201d The SNWA is reportedly trying to lessen the non-functional turf acreage that currently exists by 50% by 2035. It \u201cassumes that achieving this target could save up to 365 million gallons of water annually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justin Jones is a Clark County commissioner who serves on the water authority\u2019s board. He confirmed that the attempt has seen pushback in some master-planned communities, but according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/las-vegas-wants-ban-ornamental-grass-63017cc13af74dc49308a635e2c98346\">Associated Press,<\/a> he doesn\u2019t think taking out ornamental grass will greatly impact the lives of people in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be clear, we are not coming after your average homeowner\u2019s backyard,\u201d he said. But he called having grass in an area where no one walks \u201cdumb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only people that ever set foot on grass that\u2019s in the middle of a roadway system are people cutting the grass,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are attempting to prepare the area for potential future droughts. The SNWA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snwa.com\/importance-of-conservation\/responding-to-drought\/index.html\">explained<\/a> that the southern regions of the state primarily rely on the Colorado River for 90% of its supply of water. \u201cThe Colorado River system is facing the worst drought in the basin\u2019s recorded history,\u201d it said. \u201cThe water level of Lake Mead, which serves as one of the river\u2019s primary water storage reservoirs, has dropped some 130 feet since January 2000.\u201d It stated that the Authority has been reacting to the drought for almost two decades and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snwa.com\/water-resources\/preparing-future\/index.html#wrp\">Water Resource Plan for 2020<\/a> is meant to address water needs for the short- and long-term.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/las-vegas-wants-ban-ornamental-grass-63017cc13af74dc49308a635e2c98346\">Associated Press<\/a> reported that no other states or main cities have attempted to permanently get rid of specific types of grass. According to the outlet, Colby Pellegrino, Southern Nevada Water Authority water resources director, said, \u201cThe public perception outside of Las Vegas is certainly much different \u2014 and has been for a long time \u2014 than the water conservation ethic within the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Berggren, a water policy analyst at Western Resource Advocates, said, \u201cThe scale of this is pretty unprecedented in terms of a full ban on this nonfunctional turf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time a state has taken measures in order to conserve water. In 2015, Governor Jerry Brown \u201csigned an executive order requiring the State Water Resources Control Board to implement measures in cities and towns to cut the state\u2019s overall water usage by 25 percent compared with 2013 levels,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/14cf400930134e019039134545750015\">Associated Press<\/a> reporting at the time.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, are attempting to remove \u201cnon-functional turf\u201d in order to conserve water in the desert region.The city might be known for its decadent &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312051,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1526.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Las Vegas Moves To Ban Certain Types Of Grass In Conservation Effort","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1526.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Las Vegas Moves To Ban Certain Types Of Grass In Conservation Effort","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}