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2. Las Vegas Valley Water District - Wikipedia

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   The Las Vegas Valley Water District (LVVWD) is a not-for-profit government water supply agency that has been providing water to the Las Vegas Valley since 1954. The district helped build the area's water delivery system and now provides water to more than one million people in Southern Nevada.

3. Clark County Water Reclamation District - Wikipedia

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   The District is the largest water treatment agency in Southern Nevada and is responsible for treating wastewater from unincorporated parts of Clark County within the Las Vegas Valley, including most of the Las Vegas Strip, and the communities of Blue Diamond, Moapa Valley, Indian Springs, Laughlin, and Searchlight.

4. Southern Nevada Water Authority - Wikipedia

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   The Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) is a government agency that was founded in 1991 to manage Southern Nevada's water needs on a regional basis in Clark County . SNWA provides wholesale water treatment and delivery for the greater Las Vegas Valley and is responsible for acquiring and managing long-term water resources for Southern Nevada.

5. Clark County Regional Flood Control District - Wikipedia

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   The Clark County Regional Flood Control District ( CCRFCD) was created in 1985 by the Nevada Legislature allowing Clark County to provide broad solutions to flooding problems. The District has developed plans and so far successfully continued working on a 50-year program to eliminate most flooding from a 100-year flood in the populated areas ...

6. Fountains of Bellagio - Wikipedia

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   Bellagio fountain show at night. Fountains of Bellagio ( / bəˈlɒʒi.oʊ / bə-LAH-zhi-oh) is a free attraction at the Bellagio resort, located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It consists of a musical fountain show performed in an 8.5-acre (3.4 ha) man-made lake in front of the resort. The show uses 1,214 water nozzles and 4,792 ...

7. Las Vegas Wash - Wikipedia

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   Las Vegas Wash is a 12-mile-long channel (an "arroyo" or "wash") which feeds most of the Las Vegas Valley 's excess water into Lake Mead. The wash is sometimes called an urban river, and it exists in its present capacity because of an urban population. The wash also works in a systemic conjunction with the pre-existing wetlands that formed the ...

8. History of Las Vegas - Wikipedia

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   History of Las Vegas. The settlement of Las Vegas, Nevada was founded in 1905 after the opening of a railroad that linked Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. The stopover attracted some farmers (mostly from Utah) to the area, and fresh water was piped in to the settlement. In 1911, the town was incorporated as part of the newly founded Clark County.

9. Las Vegas Enforces New Water Restrictions Amid Drought - AOL

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   SNWA saw this coming — it started enforcing aggressive water restrictions two decades ago. In the Las Vegas area, 40% of the water is used inside homes. That water is recycled and sent back to ...