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…
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…
The Interior Department privately floated a plan to drill new tunnels through Glen Canyon dam along the Colorado River in a bid to enable water to flow out of the reservoir and maintain hydropower production as a 23-year-long drought pushes…
One proposal would bring cuts of 2 million acre-feet of water for users pulling from the drought-choked Colorado River system, mostly affecting California, Nevada and Arizona, in an attempt to conserve the region’s most valuable commodity: water. The proposal, GBWN's…
California released a proposed plan for Colorado River water conservation that directly contradicts a separate plan proposed by the basin’s six other states Kyle Roerink, executive director of the Great Basin Water Network, said he understands California’s position. Remarking on…
Hopes to forge a plan to reduce Colorado River Basin water use by 15% to 25% this year disintegrated this week with dueling proposals that pit California against Arizona and other basin states, including Wyoming. “In both letters, you have…