Norris Hundley’s book Water and the West has long stood as the classic account of the epic negotiations to divide up the Colorado River’s water. First published in 1975, the book quickly went out of print. Yet it is such an essential history of the river’s politics that, for the last several years, it’s been [...]
Vegas forges ahead on pipeline plan
Las Vegas-based Southern Nevada Water Authority manager Pat Mulroy understandably bristles at any reference to Chinatown. Yet she has achieved a degree of power that might even make Mulholland envious. Mulroy has largely set the terms of Western water over the past two decades. She has challenged what she calls the conservative “belt-and-suspenders” mindset that [...]
How low will it go?
If Eric Kuhn is right about the Colorado River, then the state faces a dry and difficult future of fighting for water.