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Jun. 17, 2008
 QUENCHING LAS VEGAS’ THIRST: PART 3: The Equation: No water, no growth To spur development, Las Vegas politicians make a set of deals that secure land and fund a water pipeline. But before the water can flow, they must challenge Nevada’s ancestry — its ranchers and Utah. ...... More
Jun. 16, 2008
Priming growth: Questionable pipeline should be on ballot The Lake Powell pipeline: a savior for St. George's growth-based economy, a demon to enable more ugly sprawl, or a mirage that will vanish as climate change dries up the Colorado River and the mountain snowpack that feeds it? (Tribune Editorial)
The 66-inch-diameter pipeline would carry... More
Jun. 09, 2008
Protect Snake Valley Water: Deseret News Editorial; 9 June 2008 In the West, there are numerous occasions when environmentalists and conservationists are diametrically opposed to the interests of farmers and ranchers.
When it comes to the Southern Nevada Water Authority's plans to tap groundwater from the Snake Valley and ship it by pipeline to booming L... More
Jun. 09, 2008
Scientist: Warming bodes ill for water (Las Vegas Sun) Federal scientists and Western water managers will call Congress’ attention Friday to the potentially devastating effects of climate change on the Colorado River, warning that an expected warming trend would reduce the amount of water in the river.
All told, the Colorado is a water source fo... More
Jun. 02, 2008
Quenching Las Vegas' Thirst: PART 1: Satiating a booming city: Las Vegas Sun reporter Emily Green looks at the demands Las Vegas' power structure is putting on natural resources and the city's own residents. Check it out at the LV Sun website given in the link below.... More
Jun. 02, 2008
Surprise! Las Vegas water officials get fast Snake Valley pumping hearing Southern Nevada Water Authority asked for a water hearing for its applications for 50 thousand acre-feet of groundwater from Snake Valley on May 23 ... and got a hearing scheduled for July 15. The Las Vegas Review Journal story is below.
Check out some quotes from Joanne Garret from Baker. ... More
May. 28, 2008
New Climate Report Foresees Big Changes (New York Times; A. Revkin) The rise in concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from human activities is influencing climate patterns and vegetation across the United States and will significantly disrupt water supplies, agriculture, forestry and ecosystems for decades, a new federal report says.
The changes... More
May. 07, 2008
CECIL GARLAND’S QUIXOTIC FIGHT. What is the southwest to become? In only a fraction of a heartbeat ago, in terms of geological time, there was a thousand feet of water above the small ranching community of Callao, UT, located in the west-central part of the Great Basin.
Approximately half of that great inland sea broke out to the north and ran to the Paci... More
May. 07, 2008
SIGN THE PETITION: STOP THE LAS VEGAS WATER GRAB The Great Basin Desert of eastern Nevada and western Utah is threatened by plans of the Southern Nevada Water Authority to drill over 200 wells in one of the driest regions of the United States and pipe the water 300 miles to Las Vegas. If permitted by the State of Nevada and the Bureau of Land... More
May. 06, 2008
THE BIG SIP STALLS (KCPW News) Negotiations have stalled in a debate between Nevada and Utah over the ownership of water in a massive underground aquifer spanning both states. Las Vegas wants to tap the area's deep carbonate aquifer, but the plan could be environmentally catastrophic for the entire Great Basin re... More
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