White Pine County officials to appeal rural water ruling
From the Las Vegas Sun: “Before a standing-room crowd, the White Pine County Commission voted unanimously to appeal the state ruling allowing water to be pumped from rural Nevada to Las Vegas. White...
View ArticleLas Vegas pipeline plan: County Commission votes to file appeal of state...
From the Ely Times: “White Pine County Commission Chairman John Lampros called it the most important issue. And, as the commission discussed the recently announced water rulings, the message was clear....
View ArticleNevada state ruling on rural water is challenged in court
From the Las Vegas Sun: “Opponents say a state ruling permitting nearly 84,000 acre-feet of water to be pumped from rural Nevada to Las Vegas will jeopardize ranching, farming, mining, recreational...
View ArticleCalifornia water wars spotlight. Nevada didn’t grab enough
From the Independent Voter Network: “What, you ask, does Nevada and Las Vegas have to do with California water? Well, water wars aren’t just fought within states. They are also fought between states....
View ArticleWater rates set to more than triple in small Nevada community
From the Las Vegas Sun: “The tiny community of Cherry Creek, with only about 30 residents, may be hit by a big increase in its water rates. There’s been a heated battle between residents, most of them...
View ArticleUtah groups join legal challenge to Nevada groundwater pumping plan
From Deseret News: “Multiple Utah groups and counties are joining some of their Nevada neighbors in a legal challenge to a decision granting water rights for a controversial groundwater pumping plan....
View Article340 percent water rate increase OK’d for tiny Nevada community
From the Las Vegas Sun: “The state Public Utilities Commission has approved a 340 percent increase in water rates for the 31 residents of the Nevada community of Cherry Creek, near Ely. Assemblyman...
View ArticleSnails at center of planned lawsuit against Las Vegas water pipeline project
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “First it was tiny fish. Now conservationists hope to use snails no bigger than pinky fingernails to block the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s plan to siphon...
View ArticleInkstain blog: Should we embrace the Bellagio Fountain?
From the Inkstain blog: “Humans here in the West use and therefore value water for basically three sorts of reasons: for domestic use (cooking, bathing, drinking, flushing away waste) for economic...
View ArticleBellagio fountains help whet appetite for learning during science festival
From the Las Vegas Sun: “Ever wonder how deep the water is outside the Bellagio? Or how the fountains work? The artificial lake has an average depth of 8 feet. Near Las Vegas Boulevard, the water is...
View ArticleWater pipeline dreams revived in the desert
From U-T San Diego: “Eager to diversify its water supplies, the San Diego County Water Authority has resurrected a long-shot plan that could top $2 billion to build a pipeline for importing water...
View ArticleLas Vegas Review Journal editorial: Next pawn in pipeline fight: tiny snails
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal, this editorial: “First it was tiny fish. Now anti-development extremists hope to use snails no bigger than your little fingernail as cat’s paws to block the Southern...
View ArticleChance of Rain blog: High good, low bad: Lake Mead in April 2012
From the Chance of Rain blog: “Late storms are unlikely to alleviate what is shaping up to be a crummy water year on the Colorado River. As of May 1, 2012 the federal Bureau of Reclamation estimates...
View ArticleEngineers plan weir to slow water eroding Las Vegas Wash
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “The Las Vegas Wash has gone wild in recent years, so the National Park Service wants to calm things down a bit. Officials at Lake Mead National Recreation Area are...
View ArticleLas Vegas in luck: New reliable water source on the way
From Energy Digital: “Fears that Las Vegas could run dry are allayed with news that a connection to a new reliable water source is on schedule with a key phase finished this March. Years of drought...
View ArticleThird intake into Lake Mead hits $5 million snag
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “An $800 million effort to sink a new straw into Lake Mead has hit another snag, this time in the connector tunnel that will link the new intake to the existing water...
View ArticleLas Vegas: Water district budget includes funds for pipeline project
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “The Las Vegas Valley Water District expects to deliver less water to customers and more money to its wholesale supplier in the coming year, according to a new $436.5...
View ArticleTribes say feds haven’t protected them from Las Vegas pipeline project
From Las Vegas Review-Journal: “Tribal leaders from Nevada, Utah and California blasted the federal government Wednesday for failing to protect them and their cultural heritage from a plan to pipe...
View ArticleColumn: Las Vegas pipeline planners ignore input they need most
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal, this column by John L. Smith: “You would think they’d have more in common. Native Americans representing tribes from throughout the region gathered Wednesday at the...
View ArticleQuagga mussels’ spread creates quandary
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “The enemy is invisible to the naked eye and exists in numbers hard to comprehend – hundreds of trillions of them at every depth and in every cove. In the five years...
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