The new administration in Washington D.C. gutted the regulations overseeing the National Environmental Policy Act of 1970, a key function for public participation and community protection on major actions proposed…
Data centers are grabbing lots of headlines. And for good reason. The necessary cooling sucks up lots of water. The energy demands are hefty. The power necessary to sustain them…
Keep a close eye on these bills working their way through the statehouses in the nation's driest states. In Nevada, watch AB109, AB134, AB9 and AB104. These are…
During the first few days of the new Administration, policy wonks across all sectors read the spate of Executive Orders with varying degrees of confusion, outrage, joy, indifference, or uncertainty.…
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The moral high ground is a crowded place these days. Most people want to believe they are taking a stand for the right thing. In…
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This week we participated in the Third Annual Great Basin Water Justice Summit with dear friends from across the region. In partnership with the…
Great Basin Water Network and Living Rivers released the following statements after the Bureau of Reclamation shared snapshots of the Alternatives relating to the upcoming Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)…
In the effort to demand accountability from regulators, the White Pine County Commission is sending the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission a major message on the pumped storage project jeopardizing the…
The lawsuit asks important questions about regulating deep groundwater drilling along the banks of a major river. As companies push to meet the demands of the green energy transition, the…
Ely Shoshone Tribal Elders and GBWN Board Members, Delaine and Rick Spilsbury, at Bahsahwahbee.
As tribal elders, we write this out of exhaustion and frustration.
Federal officials are not done…
There are no shibboleths in an era of drought and aridity. And the Nevada Legislature is taking note.
In the 2025 legislative session, state lawmakers will consider a proposal GBWN put…
When GBWN engages in a project, we don't invest haphazardly. And our work analyzing and scrutinizing the multi-billion-dollar White Pine Waterpower proposal from rPlus Hydro is no exception.
This project would…
It just wouldn't feel like August if federal officials weren't bracing us for more water cuts —triggered by federal projections of reservoir elevations — for the Lower Basin at Lake…
Spring Valley, NV — Delaine and Rick Spilsbury have no vendettas — just a desire for recognition and reconciliation at Bahsahwahbee, a sacred gathering area and massacre site that’s hallowed…
The federal government allows only one state in the west to profit from public land sales, and it happens to be the driest: Nevada. The policy’s legacy is one…
Today the Great Basin Water Network and Center for Biological Diversity released the following statements after Senator Cortez Masto introduced the latest version of the Southern Nevada Economic Development and…
GREEN RIVER — A coalition of Colorado River Basin advocates released the following statements after the Utah State Engineer granted its request for reconsideration on a water rights application for…
As the push for more pipelines and sprawl in Vegas continues, we must ask: Is this the right time to take more water from Lake Mead?
Like the ouroboros snake…
Unearthed documents reviewed by GBWN expose an animosity toward public interest provisions in the law that protect communities and ecosystems. Powerful interests are working behind the scenes on proposals to…
The request for reconsideration follows the Utah State Engineer's granting of a major water permit for the unprecedented mine on May 1.
GREEN RIVER — This week a coalition of…