By Tanner Garrity Not-so-fun fact: From December 27, 2011, to February 14, 2017, Las Vegas was officially in a drought. That’s 269 weeks of water shortage. The trend has continued into the 2020s. The region’s most intense period of drought occurred the week of July 7, 2021, when drought affected an astonishing 40% of Nevada. This year, the Sun Belt summer got off to a scorching start as early as April, when the Southern Nevada Water Authority announced that it would have to start drawing emergency water with new pumps from deeper within Lake Mead. (The lake has also been in and out of the news…