Eight years into a drought on the Colorado River, California's arid neighbors are emphasizing water conservation. Las Vegas area residents and businesses are tearing out their lawns for $2 per square foot, and Arizonans are saving water - for themselves and Nevada - in an underground water bank. Both regions are pushing a host of water-saving devices such as high-tech lawn sprinkler controls, drought-tolerant landscaping and voluntary customer water audits. Some major Las Vegas hotels get water from their own wells instead of municipal sources, recycle water, use drip irrigation and install low water-demanding showerheads and toilets. ''Our message to our citizens is we can have as good or better quality of life with much less water by paying attention to what we do,'' said Doug Bennett, conservation manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, which serves Las Vegas.
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