“These are the things being done in order to live the lifestyle we want in the places we want to live.”
“You turn on the tap, you don’t think about it,” said Noah Hoefs, a pipeline project manager for the Las Vegas-based Southern Nevada Water Authority. It’s designed to ensure that Las Vegas can still get water if the lake surface drops below two existing supply intakes. The pipeline, however, won’t drain the largest Colorado River reservoir any faster. LAS VEGAS (AP) – It took $817 million, two starts, more than six years and one worker’s life to drill a so-called “Third Straw” to make sure glittery casinos and sprawling suburbs of Las Vegas can keep getting drinking water from near the bottom of drought-stricken Lake Mead.
