The Southern Nevada Water Authority has been paying people to remove grass for quite some time now and the program has been a huge success at reducing the amount of water we use in the Las Vegas Valley. The program was started in 1999 and to date has saved more than 88 BILLION gallons of water and seen the removal of over 174 million square feet of grass. Under previous program conditions the SNWA would rebate homeowners $1.50 per sq. ft. up to the first 500 sq. ft. and $1.00