All the water the law allows: Las Vegas and Colorado River politics

Legal limits, environmental misperceptions

Las Vegas before the Law of the River

Accepting the Law of the River

1989: an era of limits and the politics of scarcity

The paradigm shift: becoming a metropolitan water agency

Regime change: becoming the voice of Nevada

Bringing power to bear: emergence of a regional strategy

The last, worst option: the SNWA in-state groundwater development project

A new regional paradigm: the Colorado River Basin Authority