Post apocalyptic las vegas

Their kind of subhuman existence doesn't really elevate one's horizons much above the gutter, as it's all about instant gratification, power and money. They're going to need a different solution. Whatever is needed that can't be found, produced, or made locally will have to be imported.

You said Vegas is to be a trading hub, so long haulers bringing goods and food and water will likely stop in the city.

Long haulers wanting to pass through the area will be diverted to tithe their hauls to the bosses. And while that's happening, they might try their luck in the Casino! Food will have to be hauled in from whatever local farms there may be or else imported from a distance.

Since this is postpockyclyptic and shipments may not be regular, your Vegian thugs will probably have to go on long haul raids to bring back food and water to the metropolis. You could dig channels into the banks of Lake Meade and then use the Hoover Dam to flood the lake and the channels, bringing water and mud to the desert.

You could then grow plenty of corn in the muddy channels. There were ancient cultures doing this successfully for centuries in the southwest before they died out mysteriously. Egypt was so stable and successful because the Nile flooded regularly, but the Mobster-Pharaoh of Vegas could flood the Colorado River at will by ordering floodgates on the Hoover Dam be closed.

In the off-season, farmers upriver would maintain the irrigation system in a massive public works campaign. Farmers would float their barges full of corn down the Colorado River to Vegas to sell crops, pay taxes, and acquire gambling addictions.

People living downriver would be upset that they get less water when the river is dammed up and fight for their water rights. A Mobster-Pharaoh might become a living river god like the Egyptian Pharaoh. A bad Mobster-Pharaoh may become decadent, preferring to use the dam for electricity and neglecting his duty to make the river flood.

Las Vegas is surrounded by golf courses. A golf course is about acres of turf farm. These have already prepared soil to allow grass to grow and already have irrigation systems which might be more or less salvageable in your post-apocalypse.

They can bring in more soil from the abandoned yards and parks. They can use windmills to bring water up from the Colorado. These golf courses will be on the outskirts of town with your condensed population for That is fine.

You can definitely grow corn, beans and squash on irrigated golf course lands in Las Vegas. Meat can be raised in greener areas and brought in on the hoof. There is no problem with what you're proposing. Lake Mead and the Colorado River are reasonably close to build irrigation system from if they don't already exist and people isn't very large to try to provide for when you're on a lake like that. The most that you're going to have to do is build an irrigation system and move "Las Vegas" closer the water supply which is inside what is called the City of Paradise.

The biggest problem that you'd face is really that at some point someone's gonna cut off the supply of water from the Great Lakes and you'll get famine and a huge die off which then leaves a bunch of corpses lying around. Once you get past that you might get a lot of fertilized land from that and that should get you all the food production you'd ever need.

A lot of what your farming capabilities depend on what has happened during the apocalypse. If the irrigation system or water supply system has been damaged, it is unlikely that farming would succeed. For example, if in the apocalypse Hoover Dam was destroyed, then delivering water to thousands of people as well as farms and other industrial purposes would be difficult. As for conditions for planting food or keeping livestock, I imagine that hydroponics would be a good answer.

Livestock would primarily need land to graze on, and that would likely be scarce. However, there is some hope, like this former pig farm in North Las Vegas which fed their pigs with leftover food scraps from the Strip. It closed a few years ago, but it's easy to see bigger projects popping up similar to this one. Overall, the farming situation does look optimistic for a smaller Las Vegas, and the trade coming through the city will surely increase the availability of food as well.

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