Should federal money for famers be spent on a dam in the desert that will serve municipal development? GBWN doesn’t think so. Last week we joined a coalition led by the Utah Rivers Council to help ensure that taxpayer dollars…
In early December, brokers on Wall Street began trading water futures as if the resource were gold or oil. This has led to more debate about the policy role of things like water markets, water banks or storage accounts. …
GBWN recently submitted comments to federal officials opposing another boondoggle in Southern Utah. This time Washington County and Kane County officials want to build a damn on the East Fork of the Virgin River a stone’s throw from Zion National…
Today, the Great Basin Water Network is proud to welcome Autumn Harry as a campaign strategist.
Autumn Harry is from Kooyooe Pa’a Panunadu (Pyramid Lake), located in Northern Nevada. Autumn is a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and is…
The Central Iron County Regional Water Authority likes to pretend that its proposed pipeline and water grab scheme will have no effect on other communities. They better start thinking differently. A USGS report that simulated pumping scenarios of the project…
Recently, GBWN has been making hay of the difference between water management on both sides of the Nevada-Utah border. With the recent defeat of the Las Vegas pipeline, water managers in Nevada showed that big, expensive water grabs are not…
Officials supporting the West Desert Water Grab were not happy.
A petition demanding that the Central Iron County Water Conservancy District halt its dangerous pipeline made major headlines earlier this month.
Right now, more than 80,000 folks have demanded that they want…
For folks in Nevada and Utah, urban sprawl is one of the greatest threats to the region's water supply. Many will recall the rapid growth of Las Vegas in the early 2000s. That population hike was one of the fallacies…
Generosity is the backbone of GBWN. Without the big hearts of our supporters, we would not be where we are today.
When we got a call a few weeks back from a generous donor offering to match donations up to $50,000…
Help our coalition of farmers, ranchers, tribes, conservationists and businesses who are committed to protecting water in Great Basin National Park and other desert valleys stop the Cedar City Water Grab. If we lose billions of gallons of water in…