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<br />Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire
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<br />Las Vegas plotting water grab
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<br />Booming city plans to challenge sacred 'law' of the Colorado
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<br />By Timothy Egan ..... ~~..P') ~..l. . .#-"" .'. . . If the city can't get water underground,
<br />The New Yert< Time...... ~~. · REACTION: Color~do water offiCials it would like to take a sizable amount
<br />LAS VEGAs,Nev. _ Water-hungry Las. nervous about pOSSible faUout.l19A from the Virgin River, which flows
<br />V<>gas} tile nation'sjastest-growing city, is through Zion National Park in Utah, curls
<br />plotting how to get- around a seven-state al Park, but 1t also follows anotJier cardi- through northwest Arizona and then. into
<br />pact that determines how much of the Col- nal rule: Western water flows toward Nevada before emptying into the Colorallo.
<br />~rado River's water. courses -through the money and power, Essentially, . Las Vegas wants to change
<br />, lives Of l'early 30 mIllion West~. Las Vegas has put forth an either-or ,what is known as the lawof the river. To
<br />';'. ,The g~mbling capital, which receives proposition to its neighboring states: in_ ranchers upstream and desert dwellers
<br />0~,4 inphes of rain a year, is running out. c"ease the city's allocation from the Colo- downstream, this "law" is sacred.
<br />o wa"'l', rado.,River or this city of nearly 1 million But when the Colorado River Compact
<br />. So~ r ,er than try to ~urb a growth rate p...epPle~ll t..ry to run more than t200 was put together.in the 1920s, no one
<br />of ~a' )[1,000 new resIdents a week, Ne- mIles ofllipes into a network of under- imagined that the desert. state of Nevada,
<br />~l!lterczars have their eyes on the ground basins, sucking water from more one of the hottest places on Earth, could
<br />o 0: The river runs downhill from its than 20,000 square miles of wilderness,
<br />hea " ~ .near Rocky Mountain Nation- ranch country arid national parks. Please see WATER 'on 19A
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