Las Vegas spends nearly $1 billion to accelerate its plunge into devastating drought followed by economic oblivion

Thursday, July 30, 2015
By Paul Martin

by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, July 30, 2015

The multi-year drought that is baking California and draining underground aquifers at alarming rates is not just limited to the Golden State. Neighboring Nevada has also been greatly affected by it, and the state has just spent almost $1 billion to further its economic demise.

As reported by The Associated Press, Nevada has spent more than $817 million over six years to drill a so-called “Third Straw” to suck water from a rapidly depleting Lake Mead, just to make sure that sprawling Las Vegas can continue to obtain drinking water from near the lake’s bottom.

The AP further reported:

The pipeline, however, won’t drain the largest Colorado River reservoir any faster. It’s designed to ensure that Las Vegas can still get water if the lake surface drops below two existing supply intakes.

“You turn on the tap, you don’t think about it,” Noah Hoefs, a pipeline project manager for the Las Vegas-based Southern Nevada Water Authority, told AP. “These are the things being done in order to live the lifestyle we want in the places we want to live.”

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