Las Vegas isn’t wasting the West’s water. It built a drain in the bottom of Lake Mead.
“What happened: Las Vegas gets about 90 percent of its water from Lake Mead on the Colorado River, and Nevada holds the smallest share of the river of any of the seven basin states: 300,000 acre-feet a year, about 1.8 percent. Since 2000 the lake has fallen by more than 150 feet. The city’s two…