You may have heard of Blockchains LLC. It wants to build a city 20 miles east of Reno at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center that would be dubbed an “Innovation…

GBWN, its friends at the Utah Rivers Council and other groups won a major victory after federal officials responded to our demands for an investigation on the proposal to dam…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A magazine spread like this doesn’t happen often for a scrappy group like ours. Then again, a victory like the one we’ve collectively achieved only comes every few generations. High Country News…

You can’t make this up. In late October, student journalists at Dixie State University in St. George put out a “fake news” edition in order to help educate readers about how…

Dennis and I met Norm Harry on a Sierra Club hike to a stand of huge Ponderosa Pines on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation in Western Nevada in the 1980's.…

Thank you, Rob, for serving many years on the Great Basin Water Network's Board of Directors. Few people really know how much you sacrificed for rural water over the years.…

One of the unsung heroes of our hard-fought water victory is our webmaster, John Walker. Behind the scenes, for more years than we can count, John has posted and archived…

  Two project proposals in Utah are a major threat to GBWN’s long-term mission and preserving our victory in stopping the Las Vegas Pipeline: the Pine Valley Water Supply Project…

NEVADA We’ve had a nice respite from the legislative hullabaloo of 2019. But the 2021 session is just around the corner. A number of bills are in the works right now.…