John Oliver rained jokes and commentary on the Southwest’s file drought on “Last Week Tonight” Sunday. (Watch the video beneath.)
The host famous that the area was the most-parched in ages and that managing water was crucial. So naturally, when the comic confirmed a information section a couple of proposed luxurious housing improvement surrounding a 20-acre browsing lagoon within the California desert ― considered one of a number of wave-riding oases into account ― he was a tad peeved.
“That is just monumentally stupid,” he mentioned.
OIiver snidely proposed methods the browsing lagoon may “go even further,” like “a wall of constantly flushing toilets, a hose that runs all day in the middle of a concrete parking lot, and of course” a person the present pays “to dump buckets of water on himself all day.”
Let Oliver quench your thirst for information concerning the water scarcity proper right here: