Las Vegas Built a $1.3B Straw Below Dead Pool.

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