Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Las Vegas is famous for being a desert oasis of dancing fountains and shimmering pools, but in the midst of a long drought, the city is turning to drastic measures to keep the faucets flowing.
A massive construction project is underway to build a 20-foot tunnel underneath Lake Mead, called the Third Straw. The fist two straws are intake tunnels that have been drawing water from Lake Mead and transporting it to Las Vegas, but due to dwindling water levels, they could soon be sucking nothing but air.
The solution was the costly and time-consuming Third Straw. Kalee Thompson writes about the project in Popular Science magazine.