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Sep. 09, 2008
 Water Speculator sues Arizona A water speculator who sought to export 4.5 billion gallons of water a year from an Arizona aquifer to fuel growth in Mesquite across the border in Nevada is suing Arizona over its denial of the pumping scheme. No surprise there. The surprise is that the suit is filed in Las Vegas over an Ari... More
Sep. 03, 2008
Wet Las Vegas plans afflicted by credit crunch, grandiosity -- Theme park visionaries are in over their heads [The funny part, of course, is the Sun's story tag line "Wet Las Vegas". Las Vegas is one of the driest places in the world leave alone the US. Vegas' fixation with grandiose water consumption has caused it to chew through its Colorado River allotment with a string of poorly thought... More
Aug. 30, 2008
Water supplies become a marketplace commodity; Water is the prize, but your trust in government may be what’s at stake Dennis Myers tackles the power brokers in Northern Nevada desire to control all water resources to keep pushing unsustainable growth. Isn't that what was behind the recent "announcement" that the regions water supplier would be "sold" to "private investors"? Reno... More
Aug. 27, 2008
Washoe County joins "Winnemucca Ranch" Development in water export scheme Incredible as it seems, Washoe County is committing staff and resources to a water export scheme from the Smoke Creek Desert to benefit the developer of Winnemucca Ranch. Even with the extreme budget problems the County faces, Bob Larkin is quoted as saying it would be used to artificially sho... More
Aug. 27, 2008
CALL FOR PHOTOS – ProtectSnakeValley.com will be offering a 2009 calendar ... . . . of beautiful scenes of Snake Valley starting in October.
There are several accomplished photographers in the area, and this is a great opportunity to share your work with a wider audience. If you have photos that you'd like to submit for the calendar, please send them (jpg, no larger... More
Aug. 25, 2008
“whiskey's for drinking, water's for fighting.” ... Sen. John McCain learned the hard way about making pronouncements about the Colorado River by calling for a "renegotiation" of its ruling compact finalized in 1922. He's been back-pedaling ever since.
You can read about it at the San Diego Union.
Snake Valley folks in east... More
Aug. 25, 2008
Poll: Nevadans open to water conservation [Las Vegas RJ] "Half of Nevada residents would support restrictions on their water use to help stretch the region's shrinking supply in the face of climate change, according to a Review-Journal opinion poll.
Fewer than one third of Nevadans polled said they would oppose new restrictions on water use, ... More
Aug. 18, 2008
BLOG: Maybe the water authority should have thought twice about ordering those golden water fountains. [ Andrew Kiraly] Seems like the Southern Nevada Water Authority is the only government agency these days that isn’t strapped for cash. In fact, you might say it’s swimming in it — the way Moapa dace frantically swim away from Pat Mulroy in their tiny fish nightmares. I mean, the authority sure isn’t relying on ... More
Aug. 18, 2008
Fair market rates' for water? All wet [George Knapp] ... I see where the Review-Journal weighed in -- perhaps prematurely -- on the decision by the state engineer to pump groundwater out of three more rural valleys. The engineer ruled that Southern Nevada Water authority could pump about 6 billion gallons per year from Cave, Dry Lake and Delamar ... More
Aug. 18, 2008
Prove it won’t pump Snake Valley dry Since the big hearings on Southern Nevada’s plan to take water from eastern Nevada’s Great Basin aquifer began, water officials have been able to avoid presenting scientific predictions about how pumping will affect the lifeblood of that region’s ranchers, plants and animals.
But in July, th... More
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