Re: Arizona ? Fabs ? Water ?
Froim what I recall, Las Vegas doesn't get power from Hoover dam ... it (and the Shasta dam in N California) were built mainly to power the pumping of water along the irrigation canals in California's central valley and to power Los Angeles and Southern California ... when the power distribution agreements was drawn up Las Vegas didn't really exisit - it grew due to the need to house all the construction workers nearby.
Also, for water, the anmount of water that each state that the Colorado River passes through can abstract is tightly regualted and I doubt there's any spare capacity .... especially as the US have had to backtrack from the Mulholland credo that "any drop of water reaching the ocean is a wasted drop of water" and allow some portion of the river to flow through Mexico to the pacific.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
