Water Pipeline Trigger

From the Las Vegas Review Journal via Water Wired is news of the Southern Nevada Water Authority and Lake Mead water levels.  The agency will begin formal efforts to steal pipe groundwater from the north once the lake has reached a"trigger" low point.  Trigger did it, not them. 

Critics argue that the drought is used as a smokescreen for the pipeline's real purpose: to fuel unfettered development in Southern Nevada.

Bob Fulkerson is executive director of the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, an advocacy group that has come out against the groundwater development project. He said the new trigger point seems "arbitrary" and a little suspicious to him.

"It could be just a Trojan Horse to allow more unrestrained growth in Las Vegas," Fulkerson said.

"If there's going to be a trigger, why not a trigger for curbing irresponsible water waste and growth?" (...)

Water authority officials long have said the pipeline is not about sustaining growth, but protecting the community from extended drought on the Colorado River.

If the pipeline is not about sustaining growth, neither is it not not about sustaining growth.  It is about meeting magically market-determined demand.  Which is somehow different. 

Trigger is a great name for a horse.  Trojan or not.