After months of negotiations, seven Western states along the Colorado River have agreed to water cuts over the next three years to help keep two of the main reservoirs, Lake Mead…
In a move to stave off a proposed first-in-history drastic reduction by the federal government of water that California, Nevada and Arizona receive from the Colorado River, the trio of…
The Interior Department on Monday said it would review a plan submitted by Arizona, California and Nevada to conserve 3 million acre-feet of Colorado River water over the next three years.
The plan…
Nevada, California and Arizona have reached an agreement on a plan to significantly reduce water use along the Colorado River, a deal that comes after nearly a year’s worth of…
Nearly a year after the federal government asked the Colorado River Basin states to agree on a plan to save the Colorado River, the states have finally made a deal.…
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kyle Roerink, Executive Director
Great Basin Water Network
702-324-9662
kyleroerink@greatbasinwater.org
BLM ISSUES A MAJOR SETBACK TO IRON COUNTY WATER GRAB
Baker, NV –– Opponents of the proposed Cedar City Pipeline and Water Grab…
Carson City, NV –– The Great Basin Water Network released the following statement on the release of the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Near-Term Operations of the Colorado…
Nevada lawmakers have proposed legislation that would allow the state to buy out water rights and retire them. The program would be administered by the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural…
In Nevada, Bloomberg's Kal Penn investigates the lasting impacts of the Colorado River Compact, the 1922 agreement that doles out water rights to seven states. The system, over-optimistic from the…
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…