The Virgin River in a drought year, May 2022.
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 forth…
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 pump billions of gallons of groundwater uphill, likely with fossil…
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 Mead. Annual reductions, announced in mid-August, are baked into the…
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 ground for Western Shoshone and Goshute people.
As they have for…
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 where billions of dollars flow into government coffers to pay…
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 Conservation Act, legislation that will increase demands on the water…
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 Utah’s first major lithium mine on the Green River.
The coalition…
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 that eats itself, the Western growth machine just won’t quit…
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 overhaul who engages and how in water rights proceedings.
Water…