While conserving water is vital to southern Nevada's future, as years of drought has depleted our most valuable water source, the Colorado River, we went to Centennial High School to see how the Clark County School District is doing its part.

Our two highest uses of water at the school district and in the Clark County area at large are for irrigation and for cooling systems on the fields.

We've been focused on replacing fields like football fields and looking at our sporting fields to reduce water consumption, also fuel consumption and chemical consumption to maintain those.

So the benefits with getting a turf outfield put in is mostly just saving water and the safety of our players.

There's been a bunch of issues with gophers and pits in the outfield, which is really dangerous to our athletes.

We had even ACL tear during practices, so having the opportunity to go on this field or even other schools that have hog turf, you don't see injuries as much.

You just have smaller games.

I see that, you know, global warming and stuff like that is a really big issue.

And one of those things that I hope to do is, you know, help save the earth.

And one of the many things that we can do is preserve the water that we currently use.

That's why it feels like this turf is very helpful for the environment and that's why I support stuff like this.

So what's your role as UCSD and what do you do?

I lead a team of individuals on our sustainability, Energy and Environmental Services Department, and we're focused on really helping CASA deliver its educational mission with a comfortable, safe, healthy environment.

So all the benefits of artificial turf.

How much water you say so far and how much are you like looking at saving the future?

Yeah.

So we've done 29 high school football fields, including the one behind us.

And as we work with the water authority on a per square foot basis, we're looking to save about 35 gallons of water per square foot per year.

With a football field like this being about 90,000 square foot a year.

So we're looking at, you know, tens of millions of gallons across every single field.

So in what ways as easy as you working to be eco friendly today?

Well, that's a good question.

And we're working in several different ways.

So some of the areas that we're looking at are lighting projects to reduce lighting energy usage while upgrading the experience in the classroom or looking at water projects, replacing turf on sporting fields as well as replacing turf around the schools that is not used for anything other than looking at.

So we call that non-player or nonfunctional turf.

We're looking to replace that with desert landscaping, reduce water consumption, reduce maintenance cost and like that.

And then other areas we're looking at our renewable energy, all of our new school designs incorporating solar eye in the future.

Well, there are plans to replace all of 6035 football fields with artificial turf.

This effort alone, listen to this could save an estimated 500 million gallons of water each year.