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So where did Rusty learn about Lounge Lizards?

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For a person supposedly concerned about conservation, Cherry is pretty liberal with that warm bath water. Especially in a locality not known for its abundance of fresh water. If I want to soak my feet, I can use a wash basin with a lot less water. But if Cherry keeps that water running any longer (panel 1), she won’t have to get into the tub to get her feet wet.

It is traditional that Rivera has Mark and Cherry exchanging weeks devoted to their own adventures; but since they are together, it looks like the intervals are more a matter of a few days. But is this all that there is for Cherry!? Where is her near-maniacal passion for Vegas? Is it all really just to sneak in a luxury bath when Mark isn’t around to shame her?  They probably only have a shower back at Lost Forest. Maybe this is the conservationist’s equivalent to taking a smoke when nobody is looking.

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  1. For a person supposedly concerned about conservation, Cherry is pretty liberal with that warm bath water. Especially in a locality not known for its abundance of fresh water.

    You might be surprised to learn that Vegas is incredibly efficient at re-using the 1.8% of the Colorado River that it gets to use. According to the Clark County Water Authority, every drop that goes down a bathtub drain, toilet, sink, or other indoor drain, goes through their state-of-the-art treatment plant, down the Las Vegas Wash and back into Lake Mead to be used again and again. Cherry is probably doing less environmental damage by soaking her feet in a bathtub in Vegas than she does taking a shower in the Lost Forest.

    The biggest contributor to water disappearing in Vegas is outdoor irrigation (golf courses and lawns). The city has been doing a lot to incentivize switching over to “desert landscaping” (sand, rocks, cacti) to reduce water losses.

    And there’s your Sunday On Tuesday™ Mark Trail strip!

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    • Loved the info, Lectern! Yeah, I was focused on the outdoorsy stuff. But that’s really interesting about their wastewater reclemation process. Is this something you work in, yourself? I should also have asked my own son, who is an environmental engineer and deals directly with wastewater treatment and reclamation where I live.

      I reckon Nevada can take a page or two from Arizona’s desert landscaping.

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      • No, my background is in systems for the transport of electronic sewage (that is, telecommunications systems). I just happened to be interested in that, and knew that Vegas leads the nation is efficient use of water. They’re not the only ones. The federal government gives cities credit for the treated wastewater they release back into the river. A city in Colorado (I want to say Colorado Springs, but don’t quote me) does something similar. They’re allocated so many acre-feet from the river flowing through town. They take more, but return a percentage of what they take in the form of treated sewage, so their net take-out is less than what’s allocated.

        I did make one mistake: It’s “Southern Nevada Water Authority,” not “Clark County.” Look ’em up on YouTube; they have a nice half-hour video explaining how their system works.

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