Blog: Research notes #2 – The free-flowing days
The way water used to burst from the ground in Las Vegas is hard for me to fathom — until I actually see photos of it. There is a reason they call Las Vegas “the meadows.” Before all the concrete and master-planned communities, before traffic, red cones and cranes, Las Vegas relied on artesian wells. Because of the geology beneath the Earth’s surface, underground pressure and physics, these coveted artesian wells sprayed water into the air without pumping. In Las Vegas, such wells offered an early water supply. These were the free-flowing and freewheeling days of Las Vegas water.