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The Chosen One - Las Vegas Sun <br />LAS VEGAS SUN <br />Quenching Las Vegas' Thirst: Part 2: <br />The Chosen One <br />Page 1 of 10 <br />Anointed to head the valley's water district, Fat Mulroy has <br />already reaped big rewards — while earning her <br />comparisons to the man who turned California's Owens <br />Valley into a dust bowl. <br />Sam Morris <br />Once dubbed "Scarlett" for her dramatic and determined efforts to keep Southern Nevada in water, Pat Mulroy <br />stands in a replica of a water pipe at Las Vegas Springs Preserve. <br />By Emily Green, Las Vegas Sun <br />Sun, Jun 8, 2008 (2 a.m.) <br />The men who manage urban water districts in the West tend to come out of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. <br />Who better to understand how and where Western water is taken from the Colorado River? <br />They are not fazed that people consider them nuts for having proposed such a system of dams, reservoirs and <br />open -air canals to deliver water across blazing deserts. <br />To explain why their system was built that way, Reclamation veterans will point to the tangled evolution of the <br />Colorado Compact, their "Magna Carta," their "constitution." <br />http: / /www.lasvegassun.com /news /2008 /jun/08 /chosen -one/ 6/17/2008 <br />