The Water Authority is finishing a $ 1.4 billion tunnel and pumping station that amounts to a drain hole in the bottom of Lake Mead, a project Mulroy
describes as «a survival
policy,» that would allow the city to continue taking water even after the generators and pumps in the Hoover
Dam stop operating and California, Arizona and Mexico, which is also entitled to the tail end of the Colorado's water, are completely cut off.