Las Vegas’s new strategy for tackling drought – banning ‘useless grass’

First-in-the-nation ban targets grass at office parks, street medians and housing development entrances that no one uses

In Sin City, one thing that will soon become unforgivable is useless grass.

A new Nevada law will outlaw about 40% of the grass in the Las Vegas area in an effort to conserve water amid a drought that is drying up the region's primary water source: the Colorado River.