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 and Lake Powell, from falling to critically low levels — but…
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 Lower Basin states submitted a plan to the U.S. Department…
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 is the states’ answer to a federal call for major…
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 negotiations over how to save the crumbling river system that…
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. But this is just a stopgap solution.
Great Basin Water Network's…
In Western water politics, the whiff of money has a way of bringing people together
It is a great unifier.
But, as Wallace Stegner admonished all who live west of the 100th Meridian, there is one “overmastering unity –– the unity…
Nevada –– The Great Basin Water Network released the following statement after the seven Colorado River Basin states announced a deal to rework a new foundation for the Bureau of Reclamation’s Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Near-Term Colorado River Operations.…
We have a special newsletter for you this week focusing on the water developer Vidler, a company making headlines for its western water operations and actively engaging in the Nevada Legislature, the courts, and the regulatory realm. This year marks…
Nevada lawmakers have an opportunity to protect the public interest and senior water rights by way of AB387, legislation that will ensure we are better recognizing ground and surface water connections. Greedy water developers and real estate interests are corrupting this…
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Great Basin Water Network
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BLM ISSUES A MAJOR SETBACK TO IRON COUNTY WATER GRAB
Baker, NV –– Opponents of the proposed Cedar City Pipeline and Water Grab released the following statements after the Bureau of Land Management…