The legislation tackles developing issues across the state: Managing Humboldt River where groundwater pumping is connected to the flows of the river; How to share water in the Lower White River Flow System, a collection of groundwater basins outside of Las Vegas; Reducing use in aquifers where there are more rights to water than there is water to go around.
“Those issues are a microcosm of a bigger picture in Nevada,” GBWN’s Kyle Roerink told the NV Independent. “How do we manage with less and less of the resource moving forward?”