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How the driest state with the smallest allocation of Colorado River water invested in infrastructure to build a “third straw” and insure a community water supply when water can no longer be released down river.
When representatives of seven Western states met in 1922 to divvy up the Colorado River, Las Vegas was a dusty railroad stop with fewer than 2,400 residents. From the building of Hoover Dam to the establishment of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, Nevada still gets the same allotment as it did after those early Colorado River negotiations.
No Southwestern state gets less water from the Colorado River than Nevada. No city relies on that water more than Las Vegas. But the over-taxed, drought-stricken river is in a deepening crisis.
World of Concrete show at the Las Vegas Convention Center sponsored by DeWalt gives conventioneers a chance for photos with giant tools. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @KMCannonPhoto
Vegas Golden Knights assistant head coach Mike Kelly, right wing Ryan Reaves and Nashville Predators defenseman P.K. Subban tell their sides of the alleged finger biting incident that occurred between Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and Subban late in the second period of their game at the T-Mobile Arena.
Jocelyn Bluitt-Fisher discusses the transition between operators of the homeless courtyard in Las Vegas, Thursday Jan. 24, 2019.(Caroline Brehman/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas police and the Raiders partner with SafeNest on Project Safe 417 (the police code for domestic violence is 417). The program partners trained SafeNest volunteer advocates with Metropolitan Police Department officers dispatched to domestic violence calls, allowing advocates to provide immediate crisis advocacy to victims at the scene of those calls. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @KMCannonPhoto