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Nov. 27, 2008

Feds should defend rural water on public lands

Piping water from the Snake Valley aquifer on the border between Utah and Nevada to Las Vegas could do irreparable harm, environmentalists say. In a letter Monday to U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, a coalition of 23 organizations said that four agencies under his department ... should...  More

Nov. 27, 2008

"If the Colorado River runs dry, no pipeline in the world will save Las Vegas." - Knapp, LV City Life

. . . The water authority has pushed the idea that we need to spend $3 billion (or $5 billion, or $10 billion) on a pipeline out into rural Nevada, a project that will decimate large areas of Nevada according to many scientists. In the past, officials pitched this idea as necessary to continu...  More

Nov. 26, 2008

No Kidding? Study: Pumping groundwater causes significant decline in spring flow.

A once-lively rest stop for migrating birds on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has grown parched over the last 40 years, the likely victim of water siphoned away for farming (via groundwater pumping) and the ongoing drought, according to a new study. State researchers say flow from a s...  More

Nov. 26, 2008

Part 2: George Knapp Video News Story: The Water Authority's Cash Cow

. . . SNWA is practically an employment agency for PR firms. R and R Partners, under contract to run the water conservation campaign, has a budget of nearly $3.3 million for the year. A Hispanic media outfit has a separate contract to reach Spanish speaking residents, just under $400,000 ...  More

Nov. 25, 2008

Part 1: George Knapp Video News Story exposing the SNWA lobbyist excessive expenses..

... (2nd part runs Tuesday (11/25/08) at 11 p.m. pacific time. . . . In the fertile fields of the Spring Valley, the Southern Nevada Water Authority is a colossus. It spent $80 million in public dollars to buy up most of the ranches in the valley at prices three to four times the going rat...  More

Nov. 25, 2008

Groups press fight over water for Las Vegas

Opponents of a proposal to draw water from the Utah/Nevada border want to make sure the Department of Interior and four of its regulatory agencies have a strong voice in the process of whether to approve the Southern Nevada Water Authority's plans to pipe the water to Las Vegas. The fear amo...  More

Nov. 19, 2008

Lake Mead fares better in new study. Upon further review, research shows reservoir has less than 5 percent chance of drying up by '21

There's a less than 5 percent chance that Lake Mead, one of the nation's largest reservoirs, could dry up by 2021, contradicting a study earlier this year predicting a more dire possibility . . . A study released in February said there's a 50 percent chance that climate change would leave La...  More

Nov. 19, 2008

Las Vegas Sun: Endangered fish swim in water Las Vegas wants

. . . It would be only natural to assume that the Pahrump poolfish actually lives in Pahrump. And once upon a time it did. But its home in Manse Springs, about 220 miles away from the Spring Valley stream as the crow flies, dried up in 1975. Before the last drops were drained to irrigate fi...  More

Nov. 17, 2008

Las Vegas housing downturn deepens: Bank forecloses on Kyle Canyon development

Bank forecloses on Kyle Canyon development Wachovia Bank has foreclosed upon a 1,710-acre development in Las Vegas before a single home was built, the chief executive of Focus Property Group said today. In October, Wachovia, which has been taken over by Wells Fargo, filed a lawsuit naming...  More

Nov. 17, 2008

Judge says suit to stop SNWA plan may proceed

A district court judge denied motions by attorneys for the Southern Nevada Water Authority to dismiss five petitions for judicial review last week. The petitioners seek judicial review of decisions concerning the SNWA's applications for water rights by the Nevada State Engineer. The five pe...  More

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