The Gods from prior generations who built Hoover Dam and the entire water infrastructure in the Western US are mostly dead, or at least certainly retired.
We must give credit where it’s due - they built out at least 50 years, so that their kids, grand kids, and great grand kids could Virtue Signal by opposing any more build-out and in fact by throwing much of the capability away, such as where huge amounts of water that could have been used to help Lake Mead gets thrown away east of San Francisco to ‘save the Delta Smelt’. Not to mention preventing the limitless and nearly cost-free water available via desalinization.
Now, as the saying goes, their Chickens have come home to Roost. Hope they enjoy the ride.
Here in AZ, DemoKKKrat Carl Hayden at least got this right: he spent his whole time getting half the Colorado River water for AZ. For the most part, those of us in below the Rim have desert landscaping, and over the next few years, I think the conversion from the old-style grass will continue.