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LAKE MEAD IS ONLY 33 PERCENT FULL — OF COURSE THERE ARE CUTS THIS YEAR

GBWNAugust 13, 2024

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…

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The Price of Selling Off Public Lands: The Colorado River and Vegas Sprawl in 3 Charts

GBWNJuly 17, 2024

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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…

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WANTED: OFFICIALS WHO THINK LIKE IT’S 2099

GBWNJune 1, 2024

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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…

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UTAH’S LITHIUM MINE AND ITS RADIOACTIVE NEIGHBOR

GBWNMay 2, 2024

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A recent approval from the Utah State Engineer raises questions about permitting a mine near a radioactive site with contaminated groundwater. Utah’s love of lithium will not be foiled by a radioactive waste site. The Utah State Engineer…

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NGOs CALL FOR ACTION ON GLEN CANYON DAM’S ANTIQUE PLUMBING

GBWNApril 10, 2024

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Bureau’s Colorado River Experiment Demonstrates Magnitude of Water Crisis at Glen Canyon Dam Archaic Design of Glen Canyon Dam Plumbing jeopardizes water supply for 30 million people in California, Arizona, Nevada, requiring urgent need to solve this problem during…

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Lithium Test Well Blowout on Colorado River Tributary

GBWNMarch 9, 2024

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Anson Resources, a company vying to mine lithium from deep brines in the Colorado River Basin, had a major test well failure this week. On March 8, reports emerged from Green River, Utah, of a test well failure and controlled flows…

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GBWN Tracking Water Speculation Near Pyramid Lake

GBWNMarch 6, 2024

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Near one of the last desert terminal lakes in the American West, water profiteers continue to scour the desert looking to gain. As real estate developers, hedge funds, and tech bros fight over the last drops in aquifers and surface water…

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Colorado River Management Is Not Yet Sustainable

GBWNMarch 6, 2024

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Today the Great Basin Water Network and Living Rivers released the following statements after the Bureau of Reclamation published its Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement For Near-Term Colorado River Operations (FEIS). The document imposes new emergency criteria on Arizona, California, and Nevada…

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Comments for Revised Draft SEIS for Operations at Glen Canyon Dam and Hoover Dam through 2026.

GBWNDecember 11, 2023

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Attached below is our comment letter for the revised draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for operations at Glen Canyon Dam and Hoover Dam through 2026. This comment letter is provided by Center for Biological Diversity, Colorado Riverkeeper, Glen Canyon Institute, Great…

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The High Life in the Colorado River Lowlands: New McMansions in the Floodplain?

GBWNNovember 22, 2023

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High-End Housing in the Lowlands of the Colorado River Floodplain There is a brand of schadenfreude in this country that usually comes at the expense of wealthy people who do really dumb things with their money. As it relates to…

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