It was set up there precisely because there was a lot of water available... it used to be an oasis.<p>Las Vegas is probably way better at water management than say the Bay Area, which most people don&#x27;t criticize for this, even though we ship water from a billion miles away (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hetch_Hetchy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hetch_Hetchy</a>).