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Susie Lee: “Lake Mead provides 90% of Las Vegas drinking water supply.”

Featuring: Susie Lee, Democratic | U.S. House, Nevada, District 3

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Opening Remarks for Congresswoman Susie Lee's Southern Nevada Water Summit

Published | Video Starts at 11:24

And the agreement that I'm sure Tommy's going to talk about that we reached gave us three more years to really work on long term conservation efforts. But we're still at 30% capacity of lake Mead. We know that Lake Mead provides 90% of Las Vegas drinking water supply. The Colorado river has been and continues to be unsustainably low. Nearly 40 million people rely on the Colorado River. (11:24–11:29)

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Asserts that Lake Mead is the source of 90% of Las Vegas's drinking water.

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