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Mar. 11, 2009
 Snake Valley Aquifer Research Team and a Snake Valley Aquifer Advisory Council signed March 27 by Huntsman On March 11, H.B. 120, a bill to assist the Snake Valley water negotiations, passed the Senate unanimously. It now goes to the Governor for his signature.
The bill creates the Snake Valley Aquifer Research Team and a Snake Valley Aquifer Advisory Council. The Council and Research Team will... More
Mar. 10, 2009
Lipstick on an Energy Hog - SNWA's Energy Plans Robert Fielden reported on Monday in his KNPR segment that Pat Mulroy has stated that SNWA would become carbon neutral.
The SNWA has long opposed retrofit programs to reduce water use indoors because of the return-flow-credit argument. While the return-flow-credit argument and the amoun... More
Mar. 10, 2009
LV Review Journal: Utah, LV in dustup over water Opponents of a plan to take water from the Snake Valley and send it to Las Vegas are asking the Utah Air Quality Board to look at concerns the project could create unhealthful dust storms in Salt Lake and Utah counties.
... the plan could deplete the water table in Utah's western desert, jeo... More
Mar. 10, 2009
"the driest states, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada, have been the fastest growing...that can't be sustained," says James Powell, author of "Dead Pool", a book about global warming and water in the U.S. West.
Change is happening too slowly, nearly all water planners say, but they disagree about what to do ...
Climate change's challenge to traditional water supplies starts in the mountain... More
Mar. 09, 2009
Obama: full scientific reviews of projects that might harm endangered species The AP reports that the President calls for scientific reviews of projects that can harm endangered animals and plants. Obama's order cancels the Bush administration call to end such reviews.... More
Mar. 09, 2009
George Knapp: Change has finally come … to the water authority’s pipeline plan The announcement this week by Obama administration officials that new walking orders have been handed down to the Department of the Interior must have sent a shudder through the offices of local water officials. President Obama has told Interior that from here on out, the scientific process wil... More
Mar. 09, 2009
Dwindling supplies inflame water wars (?) "...The West's water supply is shrinking. A difficult period of triage lies ahead. If our cities get their way, the rural areas and the Indian tribes will end up handing over their water. It's already happening in places like Southern California and Las Vegas, where deals are being cut to ... More
Mar. 09, 2009
Red Rock residents block water pipeline plan (Reno) The RGJ reports "...Engineers testified when the water is pumped out of the Red Rock water basin [north of Reno], resident wells will drop 20 to 30 feet within 20 to 25 years and vegetation will dry up in some areas. If that happens, state officials said, property owners will have to drill... More
Mar. 09, 2009
LV SUN: "How we’ll live post-sprawl" "... Urban planners say suburbanism is dying, evidenced by the shift during the past 15 years or so of real estate value from suburbs to urban cores. Younger people especially have been drawn to urbanism, be it in big cities or mixed-use villages.
Jonathan David Miller, who writes Emerg... More
Feb. 27, 2009
George Knapp Blog: SNWA Chief, Pat Mulroy, dances before NV legislature ... Appearing before the Assembly Government Affairs Committee, Mulroy did her best Little Orphan Patty imitation, pleading poverty in order to explain why her agency’s bulging bank account of nearly half a billion dollars doesn’t really count and why SNWA can barely afford to shine its tap sho... More
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