--- --- # How Las Vegas Could Become the Silicon Valley of Water Innovation by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 26, 2016 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 26, 2016 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Las Vegas wants to become the Silicon Valley of water innovation. Here’s how.**](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/what-works-las-vegas-213836) By T.R. Goldman in Politico Magazine **2\.** [**Do we trust big data too much?**](http://nautil.us/blog/how-big-data-creates-false-confidence) By Jesse Dunietz at Nautilus **3\.** [**Can the politics of nostalgia explain Donald Trump’s success?**](http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/04/25/why-the-politics-of-nostalgia-are-dangerous/chronicles/wanderlust/) By Gregory Rodriguez in Zócalo Public Square **4\.** [**To keep growing, Facebook wants to make the tech that runs the internet cheaper.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/25/technology/facebook-aims-to-drive-down-tech-prices-to-expand-its-reach.html) By Quentin Hardy and Mike Isaac in the New York Times **5\.** [**Your kid’s brain knows exactly how much homework it can take.**](http://news.wgbh.org/2016/04/21/local-news/homework-good-your-childs-brain) By Arun Rath at WGBH  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ How Las Vegas Could Be the Silicon Valley of Water Innovation ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4307589/las-vegas-silicon-valley-water-innovation/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4307589/las-vegas-silicon-valley-water-innovation/"},"headline":"How Las Vegas Could Become the Silicon Valley of Water Innovation","datePublished":"2016-04-26T16:01:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:04.485Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4307589/las-vegas-silicon-valley-water-innovation/","keywords":["Innovation","facebook","Water","Data topic","Homework","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4307589/las-vegas-silicon-valley-water-innovation/","name":"How Las Vegas Could Become the Silicon Valley of Water Innovation"}}]}] ```