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Re:Las Vegas’s city government is now powered by 100% renewa... by wlesieutre on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @01:59PM (#13222789)
California also has 14x the population of Nevada, so that's not too surprising
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Re:Las Vegas’s city government is now powered by 100% renewa... by cjensen on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @03:22PM (#13223568)
That's not why California gets more water. It has to do with how Water Rights in the Western US work [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior-appropriation_water_righ...

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Re:Las Vegas’s city government is now powered by 100% renewa... by jessriedel on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @04:01PM (#13223921)
Well, sort of. The fact that CA has 14 times the population today is strongly related to the fact that it applied 14 times the water for productive use in the past.
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