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Tandems For Want of Water - Topics - Las Vegas Sun News — Interactive by Zach Wise Las Vegas was first settled for its springs, springs that made it an oasis in the desert. Although those springs have decades since run dry, water is still the most import resource to Las Vegas and the dry Southwest. And by all indications the region is only going to get dryer. Now Southern Nevada water managers say they can no longer rely on the river so heavily, and must construct a massive pipeline to draw water stored underground for centuries in rural Nevada to Las Vegas. Opponents say the effects of the pumping would be devastating and that the plan would sacrifice a rural, ranching way of life in Eastern Nevada for casinos and tract home in the south. But it's not only the lack of water that worries environmentalists and water managers alike. Water is one of the most politically charged issues in Nevada today, and it's certainly one of the most important. — Phoebe Sweet

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