Workers at Lake Mead are preparing to shut off pumps that for three years now have been keeping water out of an underground job site 500 feet beneath the shore.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Flooding the tunnel is finished, and officials are opening the intake on a massive "Third Straw" project to draw drinking water for Las Vegas from a shrinking Lake Mead.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — It took $817 million, two starts, more than six years and one worker's life to drill a so-called "Third Straw" for Las Vegas to keep getting water from a shrinking Lake Mead.
Workers today completed a 3-mile long tunnel underneath Lake Mead connecting to a third intake straw to provide water to Las Vegas. The Southern Nevada...
