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Aug. 11, 2009
 GIVE THE PUBLIC A VOICE ON THE PIPELINE! SNWA Board to Vote Aug. 20 – Will the public be allowed to speak?
The Southern Nevada Water Authority management has scheduled a “confidence vote” in the plan to pump billions of gallons of water annually from rural Nevada and Utah to Las Vegas.
PLAN, ranchers, GBWN, and conservationists ... More
Aug. 11, 2009
Zetland: Hey Folks: cheap water has driven growth/sprawl in the western US ... Oh -- and don't forget that Vegas has some of the cheapest water ($30/month on average) and highest per capita consumption (260 gcd) in the US!
We need new thinking on how to escape the current unsustainable path, and then we need to implement that thinking.
[see Economist David Ze... More
Aug. 11, 2009
"Up" or "Down" vote? Does Mulroy pull the strings? KLAS TV's I-Team reports:
"Water czar Pat Mulroy wants to know if elected officials on the Southern Nevada Water Authority board are in favor of building a massive rural groundwater project. She wants the board to vote thumbs up or thumbs down ... Critics say the vote will be a meanin... More
Aug. 08, 2009
It's about time! Las Vegas talks to Mexico about Desalination and Conservation The LV Review Journal reports that Water Czar of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, Pat Mulroy, has been in talks with Mexico representatives about getting additional water from the Colorado River.
"... One idea being discussed is U.S. investment in Mexican desalination plants along t... More
Aug. 07, 2009
"Fear Mongering": SNWA desperate to get political cover for water grab SNWA is now claiming the water grab is for current residents, but that's not what they have been telling the state water engineer for the past 4 years. SNWA wants its "board" to vote the project "up" or "down". Worried? You bet. People are starting to get the m... More
Aug. 04, 2009
High Country News: Reid 'political architect' of water grab In a story about NV Senator Harry Reid and his support for non-environmental industry in the Congress, HCN reports:
" ... sometimes the senator takes spectacularly anti-green positions. He's the political architect of a proposed 6-foot-diameter, 300-mile-long pipeline that would suck up... More
Aug. 03, 2009
Silence your critics ... The AP quotes J.C. Davis with the Southern Nevada Water Authority as saying the fear over an agreement is overblown. ... Davis said the sooner the details can be worked out, the better the agreement will be for everybody involved.
“Everybody,” in this case, means the SNWA itself and the Vega... More
Aug. 02, 2009
No need to make deal with Nevada The aquifer beneath Utah's Snake Valley on the Utah/Nevada border might have no water to spare. But Nevada water officials and Utah Natural Resources Director Mike Styler seem to be ignoring that possibility.
They're busy divvying up the water before they know whether any can be removed with... More
Aug. 02, 2009
Counties fear Utah selling out Snake Valley water. ...
Officials in Millard, Juab and Salt Lake counties fear Utah is about to sign away a big share of the aquifer straddling the state line about 60 miles southwest of Delta. Doing so could enable "water mining" for a 285-mile pipeline to Las Vegas, they say, drying up ranches and w... More
Jul. 30, 2009
More water, less Vegas [Daily Herald) The [Southern Nevada Water Authority's] pipeline project from Utah began in the halcyon days when Las Vegas's growth seemed inevitable. That's no longer the case. Local, county and state officials in Utah have been questioning the pipeline project. They need to stay on the case, and to challen... More
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