The City of Henderson puts about one billion gallons of water per year into Lake Las Vegas to compensate for evaporation.
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- 55%
The core assertion is supported: sources say Henderson supplies raw water to Lake Las Vegas to replace evaporation losses, after stormwater falls short. The figure is less settled: the sources report about 1.3 billion gallons delivered or used in the relevant period, not about one billion, so the claimed amount is only partly matched.
A detail. The sources confirm the gist; the verdict faults a detail such as a date, number or wording.
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What was said
… Lake Las Vegas is a master planned community, technically part of Henderson. They built this by creating a 3.3 billion gallon lake and building a few thousand homes around it. The problem is that because of evaporation between the lake and the golf courses, the city of Henderson has to put back about a billion gallons of water per year. If you were to put all of the treated drinking water into these jugs and stack them on top of each other, it would be over 189,000 miles, almost all the way to the moon. …
What we found
Contradicts. A Las Vegas news report says the city reported delivering 1.3 billion gallons to the lake, and a KTNV report says Lake Las Vegas used more than 1.3 billion gallons in the prior year, which exceeds the claimed 'about one billion' by roughly 30%.[1][2]
Supports. Sources state that Lake Las Vegas losses to evaporation must be replaced, and that when storms fall short the city of Henderson provides water to make up the balance.[1][3]
Context. Lake Las Vegas also holds a stormwater permit for 2,000 acre-feet per year, and recent monsoon rains supplied about 1,400 acre-feet, so part of the evaporation loss is covered by runoff rather than city water.[2][4]
Context. The claim's wording ('puts ... into Lake Las Vegas') matches the passage's 'has to put back about a billion gallons per year', so the extraction is faithful; the figure is the claimant's own estimate and is not corroborated by any source.
Sources
4 sources: 4 not rated
- 1I-Team: Lake Las Vegas currently not getting filled8newsnow.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 2Top water users in the Las Vegas metro area revealedktnv.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, context
- 3Here’s how Lake Las Vegas gets its fill of water | Henderson ...reviewjournal.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Lake Las Vegas - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
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