Nobody plants it. There is a lot of water in the desert but it's all underground - Carla managed to buy a piece where the water is closer to the surface.
Carla, did you move from out of the area to Pahrump? Have you checked into creeping in the aquifer from the nuclear test sites to the Amargosa Valley? Luckily, you are further from it. Beatty is the town with the big problems.
My Grandmother and Uncle lived in Pahrump for 40 years.