In the 1960s, the desert cities of Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Los - TopicsExpress



          

In the 1960s, the desert cities of Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles needed more water and electricity in order to grow. In Unreal City, the journalist Judith Nies tells the gripping story of how “the magic of the Southwest Boom” required the underground coal on Hopi and Navajo reservation lands in northern Arizona—and how a coalition of lawyers, businessmen, and politicians engaged in “legal theft” to turn this high desert, called Black Mesa, into one of America’s largest strip mines. The energy from that coal would power the excesses of Las Vegas and pump the Colorado River over three mountain ranges to Phoenix as part of the Central Arizona Project, the world’s most expensive water system. onearth.org/articles/2014/07/remind-us-again-why-we-built-cities-in-the-desert
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:11:33 +0000

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