‘No Immediate Solution’ As New Mexico Town Has Only 50 Days Of Drinking Water Left

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The city of Las Vegas, New Mexico, has less than two months of drinking water after a massive wildfire contaminated a river the town pulls from, according to local news KOAT 7

Not to be confused with Las Vegas, Nevada, the 13,000-person city in San Miguel County relies solely on the now contaminated Gallinas River, which is full of ash and debris after the Calf Canyon-Hermits Peak Fire.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Grisham declared “a state of emergency in Las Vegas” on Friday after the town’s drinking water storage had only 50 days of stored water left.

Las Vegas Mayor Louie Trujillo said the municipal water treatment facility could not treat the contaminated water. The town is running out of options and has implemented Stage 6 water restrictions.

The new measures include no watering outside, no refilling pools, restaurants are prohibited from serving water to customers except when asked, fire departments use foam to fight fires rather than water, and large commercial customers delay consuming large quantities of water.

There’s no immediate solution for a secondary water source for the town nor a timeframe when parts of Gallinas River will be suitable for water treatment.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/las-vegas-nm-has-50-days-drinking-water-left

One thought on “‘No Immediate Solution’ As New Mexico Town Has Only 50 Days Of Drinking Water Left

  1. “Only 50 days left.” Thems some heavy words to hear. A pocket of pain here, a dose of disaster there, so many areas experiencing some kind of struggle, emergency, suffering. How can one not point the finger at that group who pretends to care for the planet? You know, the hypocrites who steal everything and want us dead. I can’t look at any of our trouble and somehow not see their hand in it, at least 95% of it. How good it will feel when we finally get them to leave us alone.

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