Well seeing that there is no rain in NV and it has been more than 200 years since that area has gotten any rain how is there still water? also NV is basically one big dry hot desert most water would evaporate. Am not trying to say anything negative about this game but am just wondering on how water stays in a desert 4 a long time.

The water starts as snow somewhere else and runs into the rivers/lakes....either through an above-ground river system or underground rivers/channels.


Even in the real world you can have water sources that remain in areas which get very little annual rainfall, for the reasons I already mentioned. Until geography/weather changes or millions of humans pump it all out faster than it can replenish naturally, that is.

Not only still water, but muddy water too, not to mention deep rivers, you can take yourself to.

Lady Crimson knows a lot about areas close to Nevada, as many other Americans do too.

Deserts tend to be arid, but even after a Science based nuclear war, 200 years of lack of human interference new chanels would get eroded, resevoirs would over fill and break.
The terrain in NV is a third + mountain based, annual rainfall and thaws from those mountains would create plenty of water.
That and just because we don't see rain, does not mean it does not.

Well yeah, Mt Charlston is covered in snow and the Super Mutants often say that they hope it snows later.

If anything there would be more water than in comparison to now. Considering there is limited population draining the water supply.

And there's a dam nearby.

Never rains? That's something I haven't noticed....
:rolleyes: Heh...
But there are natural underwater sources in the real world so that would explain why there is water in Mojave.
But damn, I want rain to in the next Fo.. Why is there no rain?

i dont get why it doesnt ever rain it still would i just dont think they incorporated it into the game

Dams holds in water, doesn't produce it.

Just because it does not rain in the game does not mean it does not rain. Its a desert rain does not happen that often. Second its been pointed out that the Colorado gets its water from snow in the mountains. Mountains in New Vegas have snow.

go to jacobstown and you will see lots of snow.

Questions:

Edouard, in regards to your first response..

"What gave you the idea that it hasn't rained in Las Vegas in 200 years? Here is data from the Clark County Regional Flood Control District for 2010 You will note that some areas had over 13 inches of rainfall. That there is even a 'flood control' district should be a major clue."

He was refering to the game, not real life.

I suspicioned as much. Is there something in the game that gives that impression? If so, then that is where I would take issue. I am unaware that the game makes such a statement and thought he may be doing that.

If the game indicates that it hasn't rained since the war, then that would be wildly improbable.

the Colorado River starts in the Rockie Mountains and flows down through the Grand Canyon then into Lake Mead which was created by the Hoover Damn. It eventually flows into the Gulf of California.

:whisper: the town I live in straddles the Colorado River more almost 600 miles from Las Vegas/New Vegas


The Colorado River flows through New Vegas, it does not start there. It starts in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of miles to the East, fed by both Spring Runoff from the snowmelt and from underground springs and other rivers (Uncompaghre, Gunnison, Dolores just in Western Colorado) that drain into the river. The water that is running past the Hoover dam has been flowing for almost 1000 miles, before it gets there.