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The Impact Of A Water-Imposed Interruption Of Growth In The Las Vegas Region, William T. White, Thomas M. Carroll, R. Keith Schwer
The Impact Of A Water-Imposed Interruption Of Growth In The Las Vegas Region, William T. White, Thomas M. Carroll, R. Keith Schwer
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This study is prompted by the expectation that water supplies for the Las Vegas Valley, both those used currently and those additional quantities available from existing sources, cannot sustain significant further economic growth of the region beyond the year 2006.
There are five parts to this study. Part I uses a regional econometric (REMI) model to project the growth of the Las Vegas region to natural maturity, essentially unconstrained by an overriding water shortage.
Part II is a reinforcing cross-section analysis of metropolitan areas in the United States to learn the most common natural growth patterns and those that have …