Feb. 08, 2010 “THERE WOULD JUST BE SO MUCH LITIGATION” The Southern Nevada Water Authority is spinning so hard, it may need its own axis. ... [The] Las Vegas Review-Journal captures the angle and motion as the water agency led by Patricia Mulroy moves to defend the lawfulness of a massive haul of groundwater awards put into question last week by th... More
Feb. 08, 2010 “AT LONG LAST, THINGS ARE GETTING INTERESTING” - GEORGE KNAPP Remember that scene from the Monty Python movie where the Black Knight gets his arms and legs hacked off? Blood spurts out of stumps that previously were appendages, but the knight tells his enemies “it’s only a flesh wound.” That’s the same attitude displayed by the Southern Nevada Water Autho... More
Feb. 08, 2010 State engineer fears 'chaos' from high court water ruling - Isn’t the law so darned inconvenient sometimes? Henry Brean with the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (see the link for the article) that the Nevada State Engineer fears 'chaos' from high court water ruling.
Oh my!
The SNWA’s preferred wording: “Pat Mulroy can do whatever she wants, whenever she wants, forever, amen.”... More
Jan. 31, 2010 THERE WILL BE BLOOD [A Chance of Rain - Emily Green] ... Until recently, smart money was on Las Vegas getting the water and five rural valleys in central, eastern Nevada getting the disaster. Look at a map and there are the target basins, little populated places lined up like long narrow flagstones leading half way to Salt Lake City: Delamar, Dry... More
Jan. 31, 2010 Pipeline not the sole option Authority exploring other means as predictions for Lake Mead remain grim [Las Vegas Sun, Excerpt] The Nevada Supreme Court’s ruling last week that upheaved multibillion-dollar plans to tap water from rural Nevada for the Las Vegas Valley has thrown into confusion the fate of a project that was once hailed as essential to the future of Las Vegas.
The ruling jeopar... More
Jan. 31, 2010 The small oversight that threatens the valley’s big pipeline proposal [Las Vegas Sun, Excerpt] From the start, Pat Mulroy’s daring strategy to tap Nevada’s rural water to quench the Las Vegas Valley seemed destined for some sort of catastrophe.
But no one thought it would stem from a lobbyist’s blunder.
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And that setback proved pale compared with Thur... More
Jan. 29, 2010 Chance of Rain: "LAS VEGAS PIPELINE LOSES ITS WATER" Emily Green writes: "In a stunning reversal for Las Vegas water manager Patricia Mulroy, ground-water awards that were to fill an almost 300-mile-long pipeline planned by the Southern Nevada Water Authority to run from central eastern Nevada to Las Vegas were invalidated today. ..."... More
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