Las Vegas Built a $1.3B Straw Below Dead Pool.
Physics Doesn't Care
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In 2015, Las Vegas finished something no other city on the Colorado River has. It's a three-mile tunnel under Lake Mead that pulls water from 860 feet, below the level where Hoover Dam stops releasing water at all. With the pumping station, it cost about $1.3 billion, paid for by local ratepayers.
Phoenix took a different path. Now the river is shrinking, new federal cuts start January 1st, and Nevada is in federal court. Which city's bet holds up when the lake hits bottom?
Sources:
CBS News · The Nevada Independent · Las Vegas Review-Journal · U.S. Department of the Interior · City of Phoenix · Axios Phoenix · KJZZ / Wyoming Public Media · Office of the Governor of Nevada
#LakeMead #LasVegas #ColoradoRiver
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Las Vegas Built a $1.3B Straw Below Dead Pool.
Physics Doesn't Care
144 views
In 2015, Las Vegas finished something no other city on the Colorado River has. It's a three-mile tunnel under Lake Mead that pulls water from 860 feet, below the level where Hoover Dam stops releasing water at all. With the pumping station, it cost about $1.3 billion, paid for by local ratepayers.
Phoenix took a different path. Now the river is shrinking, new federal cuts start January 1st, and Nevada is in federal court. Which city's bet holds up when the lake hits bottom?
Sources:
CBS News · The Nevada Independent · Las Vegas Review-Journal · U.S. Department of the Interior · City of Phoenix · Axios Phoenix · KJZZ / Wyoming Public Media · Office of the Governor of Nevada
#LakeMead #LasVegas #ColoradoRiver
If you lived there, which would you trust? 👇