In the arid west, it is paramount for water users and water advocates to have access to the justice system to defend their interests. Before the legislative session began the Nevada Division of Water Resources released a bill that would…
You may have heard of Blockchains LLC. It wants to build a city 20 miles east of Reno at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center that would be dubbed an “Innovation Zone” in state law. A proposal in the Nevada Legislature…
GBWN, its friends at the Utah Rivers Council and other groups won a major victory after federal officials responded to our demands for an investigation on the proposal to dam the East Fork of the Virgin River. Known as Cove…
Should federal money for famers be spent on a dam in the desert that will serve municipal development? GBWN doesn’t think so. Last week we joined a coalition led by the Utah Rivers Council to help ensure that taxpayer dollars…
In early December, brokers on Wall Street began trading water futures as if the resource were gold or oil. This has led to more debate about the policy role of things like water markets, water banks or storage accounts. …
GBWN recently submitted comments to federal officials opposing another boondoggle in Southern Utah. This time Washington County and Kane County officials want to build a damn on the East Fork of the Virgin River a stone’s throw from Zion National…
Today, the Great Basin Water Network is proud to welcome Autumn Harry as a campaign strategist.
Autumn Harry is from Kooyooe Pa’a Panunadu (Pyramid Lake), located in Northern Nevada. Autumn is a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and is…
The Central Iron County Regional Water Authority likes to pretend that its proposed pipeline and water grab scheme will have no effect on other communities. They better start thinking differently. A USGS report that simulated pumping scenarios of the project…
Recently, GBWN has been making hay of the difference between water management on both sides of the Nevada-Utah border. With the recent defeat of the Las Vegas pipeline, water managers in Nevada showed that big, expensive water grabs are not…
Officials supporting the West Desert Water Grab were not happy.
A petition demanding that the Central Iron County Water Conservancy District halt its dangerous pipeline made major headlines earlier this month.
Right now, more than 80,000 folks have demanded that they want…
For folks in Nevada and Utah, urban sprawl is one of the greatest threats to the region's water supply. Many will recall the rapid growth of Las Vegas in the early 2000s. That population hike was one of the fallacies…
Generosity is the backbone of GBWN. Without the big hearts of our supporters, we would not be where we are today.
When we got a call a few weeks back from a generous donor offering to match donations up to $50,000…
Help our coalition of farmers, ranchers, tribes, conservationists and businesses who are committed to protecting water in Great Basin National Park and other desert valleys stop the Cedar City Water Grab. If we lose billions of gallons of water in…
A magazine spread like this doesn’t happen often for a scrappy group like ours.
Then again, a victory like the one we’ve collectively achieved only comes every few generations.
High Country News has long chronicled our uphill battle. This journalistic denouement is…
You can’t make this up.
In late October, student journalists at Dixie State University in St. George put out a “fake news” edition in order to help educate readers about how to combat the information pandemic plaguing society.
On the front page…
Dennis and I met Norm Harry on a Sierra Club hike to a stand of huge Ponderosa Pines on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation in Western Nevada in the 1980's. His warm welcome and easy sharing of his extensive knowledge…
Thank you, Rob, for serving many years on the Great Basin Water Network's Board of Directors. Few people really know how much you sacrificed for rural water over the years. You lived and worked in the lion's den of Las…
One of the unsung heroes of our hard-fought water victory is our webmaster, John Walker. Behind the scenes, for more years than we can count, John has posted and archived news, information and resources about our multi-decade water fight. John…
Two project proposals in Utah are a major threat to GBWN’s long-term mission and preserving our victory in stopping the Las Vegas Pipeline: the Pine Valley Water Supply Project in Utah's West Desert and the Lake Powell Pipeline for St.…
NEVADA
We’ve had a nice respite from the legislative hullabaloo of 2019. But the 2021 session is just around the corner. A number of bills are in the works right now. We don’t have all the language yet. By the time…