Vegas Vic wrote on April 01, 2008 08:40 PM: "...to a $30 billion development he's building..."
So, he was already building the project without having any water available? The state should have told him to get the water where he got the money and NOT allowed him to pump any water anywhere. It's going to take an aquifer or two to run completely dry before some state engineer finally pulls his head out and sees the light. But sees it too late to save whatever communities are totally ruined by the drying up of the aquifer.

roger wrote on April 01, 2008 01:26 PM: This is what these developers do.. they buy land relatively cheap...then start asking for concessions, exceptions, changes to zoning,etc...and every time they get their way the value of their land goes thru the roof. What every time this billionaire develops more land the federal government has to make concessions so his project doesn't go up in smoke? Tell him no. Or maybe I should be asking the government for some favors as well?

Mark$ wrote on April 01, 2008 10:21 AM: As time goes by, more & more people will wonder why even our bought-out politicians EVER approved this utterly ludicrous vanity project, just so Nevada's greasiest Big Shot (after Sheldon) can lavish our precious water on a bunch of clueless poseurs waltzing around their "luxury" golf course out in the middle of nowhere.

peter s wrote on April 01, 2008 09:12 AM: juice out, water in.