Las Vegas Wash
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Sep 29, 2026
Augustus DorickoGUEST
It created unprecedented and un- unimaginable abundance for the Mojave Desert.
Augustus DorickoGUEST
You, you wouldn't have cities like Los Angeles and Phoenix and Tucson and, and Vegas if not for that sort of deliberate modification of where God put water in the river, right? And it's created, like, the, the Las Vegas Wash, which is now super biodiverse and green.
Augustus DorickoGUEST
That's good.
Augustus DorickoGUEST
And then so one, we're modifying the weather unintentionally all the time.
Sandy HackettHOST
That water doesn't just disappear.
Sandy HackettHOST
It goes to a treatment plant, gets highly treated, and much of it eventually travels through the Las Vegas Wash and back into Lake Mead.
Sandy HackettHOST
And here's the clever part.
Sandy HackettHOST
For the water Southern Nevada puts into the Colorado River system, it gets what's called a return flow credit.