Comments about ‘New species in Nevada park stoke water deal fears’

We all live up hill from Vegas...so flush!

They need the water.

Vegas needs to find another more permanent soulution to their water problem. They have irresposibly developed the desert complete with lush lawns and gardens and fountains...if they want water they need to get it from the ocean... that way they won't have to STEAL it from those of us that depend on that aquifer.

I lived in Las Vegas for 40 yrs. I watched them waste water for every quirk some hotel mogul thought up. The city councilmen and county politicians allowed the City to grow rapidly and without any controls on growth. They knew it was the desert and the water was a precious comodity but did'nt care. it was all about the taxes and $$$ they could reap. so STEAL the water from somebody else. That' their answer.

Vegas is in the Colorado river basin. They want to take water out of great basin. Salt Lake is the bottom of the great basin, so flush will just send the water into the great salt lake.

How is it that a species that hasn't been discovered until now can prevent a city from getting water it needs?

This just shows how crazy we are. Pumping may destroy Farms and ranches, who cares? But a bug or plant may be harmed, that's a no-no.

Development in the West is a threat to all species, even us humans. Water is wasted and development is uncontrolled for taxes and the resources are not here.

All residents are told to conserve and not use water so that the land can be developed even more by the water others have been conservative with. Conservation begins with controlled development and use. Our supply is exhaustible and drought is common so why the allowed corruption in development is going on is the biggest threat and mystery to us all.

Look at what California has done to its natural environment with its greed for water, they have created wasteland that was once covered with living plants and wildlife.

This is why we need federal controls on land in the West, to restrict and control development in a desert where resources are minimal to start with. Cities and states want the taxes regardless of what it does to the human factor and the quality of our lives. We are a species too and this treatment of very limited natural resources even endangers us.