@jfmezei@mstdn.ca
Lake Mead Third Intake Documentary
Southern Nevada Water Authority
28:28 https://youtu.be/Wi-W5hcRN4E
aka: the cost of climate change. This is from 9 years ago and the lake level situation has worsened since then, providing justification for this mega project as the 1st intake is now unusable.
While public transit projects get a lot of attention, projects such as tehse are just as great if not greater but because it is for municipal water they are invisible and taken for granted. But when every city needs to deal with reduced availabilit of water and growing population there is a huge cost to society.
BTW, while the Metro,s funding only allows for very slow tnnel digging, remember that they built tunnells spanning east-west of Island of Montreal when they built the gian sewage interceptor network and some of the tunnels are as large as the metro.
@jfmezei@mstdn.ca
Picture of Las Vegas water intake 1 in Lake Mead.
When something that had been designe dages ago to be perenial becomes no longer usable, requiring billions in investment due to climate change. Yet, the USA regime is in full denial in order to protect the oil companies.
This isn't just about needing air conditioning, it is about ensure there is water that flows when you turn on your tap.
Water is ESSENTIAL TO LIFE.