The moral high ground is a crowded place these days. Most people want to believe they are taking a stand for the right thing.
In an era where companies, politicians, lobbyists and others are promising us the next best thing, sifting through the good and bad is an increasingly difficult task.
For some, it’s not water exportation, it’s water security. It’s not a new pipeline, it’s a water battery. It’s not dewatering, it’s critical mineral development. It’s not sprawl growth, it’s the American Dream.
Who can argue with that? We can.
Euphemisms are an artform for industries. The greenwashing and bluewashing are hitting the arid west harder than gullywashers in a monsoon. That’s why we need your help for the coming year.
Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to GBWN during this season of giving. Your support provides us with stability and predictability in an era of uncertainty.
- Who is tracking water rights filings and corporate acquisitions of our precious resources?
- What group in the nation’s two driest states is advocating for commonsense laws and holding regulators accountable during permitting of new extractive uses of water?
- Who is on the ground in rural communities developing relationships, making investments, and building bridges across political divides?
It is Great Basin Water Network.
When we come to the table, we see folks with high-powered lawyers, cherry-picked science, and political capital. To represent our collective interests, we must come equipped. And that is why we need your tax-deductible donation.
We benefit from a team with decades’ worth of experience in the trenches of public interest advocacy. When we engage on a project or champion a policy, we do so because we’ve done our homework. Our legal team, hydrologic analysis, tribal outreach, and other partnerships are among the best in the West. The insights are always worth the expense. But they are not possible without your support.
Our work demonstrates how to fill leadership vacuums around the west.
This year, you helped us empower communities facing major threats from outsiders. In Nevada, our Step Up for Steptoe campaign is working to stop a groundwater-based hydro-power project — an industrial-scale effort never-before permitted in the nation’s driest state. In Utah, we are litigating to ensure the best standards as companies propose deep groundwater drilling for lithium and other minerals in the Colorado River Basin — a partnership that includes farmers, property owners, whitewater companies, and others. In multiple states, we are providing resources to indigenous communities to memorialize their sacred areas and expand capacity. We continue to fend off the Cedar City Pipeline and other dangerous water proposals across the arid regions of the U.S.
We will show up next year, as we have always done, for directly affected communities when they need us. Our brand of collaboration — one that eschews divisions in favor of unity — is one you can trust.
Thanks to your support, we will always take a stand for the places, people, and resources that matter to you.
Kyle Roerink
Executive Director
P.S. Your donations of all kinds keep us going. Monthly or one time, check or online. Have you considered adding us to your will or trust? Thank you for the support.