RED ALERT: Pat Mulroy’s Battle for Water in Las Vegas: Lake Mead Acquifer Depleted and the $3.5 Billion 327-Mile Water Pipeline; Piecemeal Water Industry Beast Pressuring Mulroy to Quit; Shasta Lake, California’s Biggest Reservoir, Only 1/3rd Full; Los Angeles Pay 7,000 Farmers to Leave Land Fallow (Bloomberg) 
Feb.27, 2009 in
Drought, Water Crisis, Water Industry, Water Management
(Feb. 26, 2009, Bloomberg News)
On a cloudless December day in the Nevada desert, workers in white hard hats descend into a 30- foot-wide shaft next to Lake Mead.
As they’ve been doing since June, they’ll blast and dig straight down into the limestone surrounding the reservoir that supplies 90 percent of Las Vegas’s water. In September, [...]
