Pat Mulroy - Part 1: Adapting the Invisible Utility
20/10/11 04:50
Part 1 — Connections and Threats
Pat Mulroy manages water over a vast piece of real estate in the southwestern United States. But — as she will quickly make clear — there isn’t a lot of water there. There never was much water there, in fact. As a result, the cities, farms, and factories spanning the greater Colorado River basin have learned to live with less. The best of them have also learned to be efficient and smart in their growth. But the past twelve years have either been a drought or the start of a new normal, where only a few inches of rain each year became even less. That’s the threat.
As a result, the region whose water is governed by the Southern Nevada Water Authority that Pat manages has had to look beyond its borders for allies and cooperation. The stability, security, and growth of economic engines such as Las Vegas depend on these alliances. Those are the connections.
In the first of three videos presented here, Pat discusses the actual and virtual basin where southern Nevada is embedded.
For more information and background on the Colorado River and the Southern Nevada Water Authority, select Read More.
Pat Mulroy manages water over a vast piece of real estate in the southwestern United States. But — as she will quickly make clear — there isn’t a lot of water there. There never was much water there, in fact. As a result, the cities, farms, and factories spanning the greater Colorado River basin have learned to live with less. The best of them have also learned to be efficient and smart in their growth. But the past twelve years have either been a drought or the start of a new normal, where only a few inches of rain each year became even less. That’s the threat.
As a result, the region whose water is governed by the Southern Nevada Water Authority that Pat manages has had to look beyond its borders for allies and cooperation. The stability, security, and growth of economic engines such as Las Vegas depend on these alliances. Those are the connections.
In the first of three videos presented here, Pat discusses the actual and virtual basin where southern Nevada is embedded.
For more information and background on the Colorado River and the Southern Nevada Water Authority, select Read More.
Some relevant links:
The public site for the Southern Nevada Water Authority can be found here. For non-US readers who are unfamiliar with the western US, the Colorado River basin quite large and much of the area is arid or semi-arid, as shown in the map here. You can read a brief overview of the basin at this site, and you can also get a sense of how much infrastructure exists across
the basin and the active role of drought there from this site, run by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA).
The public site for the Southern Nevada Water Authority can be found here. For non-US readers who are unfamiliar with the western US, the Colorado River basin quite large and much of the area is arid or semi-arid, as shown in the map here. You can read a brief overview of the basin at this site, and you can also get a sense of how much infrastructure exists across
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