As the old truism goes in the West, when choosing between the history or the legend, stick with the legend — the facts be damned. As proposals for inland ports, lands bills, and tax giveaways make news in Nevada and…
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 River. "Any way you look at it, it would be hard…
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 Resources.
“This is a good water bill," GBWN's Kyle Roerink…
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 start, is on the verge of collapse as water levels…
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 Flow System, a collection of groundwater basins outside of Las…
State legislative sessions are topsy-turvy affairs. There are usually highs and lows –– or, in terms of water, deluge and drought. Spurts of legislative flashpoints interject periods of what may seem like calm. However, in legislative-water parlance, the year 2023…
Four states that use water from the Colorado River are asking the federal government to pause some water releases from Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico, which make up the river’s Upper Basin, voted to suspend additional…
Experts and advocates say the moves represent a step in the right direction for Utah’s capital, but it’s going to take more than one community to save the city’s namesake ecological feature. “What we need in communities across the Great…
The Glen Canyon Dam is just 32 feed away from the "minimum power pool" - the point at which it would no longer generate power for the Basin States. As GBWN's Kyle Roerink told the LA Times, “There is now…
Alternatives for major modifications to Glen Canyon Dam surfaced Tuesday at a public meeting, the first acknowledgment by the federal government that the dam could require changes. But water conservation advocates say changes to the dam that would delay Lake…