Showing posts with label Southern Nevada Water Authority. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Southern Nevada Water Authority. Show all posts
May 16, 2017

Nevada rancher, water authority opponent Dean Baker dead at 77

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Rancher Dean Baker talks strategy with fellow Snake Valley residents at a 2009 meeting in advance of a hearing on plans to pipe groundwate...
May 18, 2016

Lake Mead hits new record low

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The levels of Lake Mead, near Las Vegas, have declined in recent years and are approaching critical shortage levels. (Photo: Jay Calderon/...
July 5, 2015

Las Vegas completing last straw to draw Lake Mead water

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A worker stands near the end of a tunnel still under construction beneath Lake Mead near Boulder City, Nev. When operational, the three-mi...
March 7, 2015

Water grab pits Las Vegas against Mormons

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Spring Valley, which sits atop an aquifer 263 miles from the country clubs and casinos of Las Vegas, is the focus of a Nevada legal fight...
December 13, 2014

Arizona farmers take hit to stave off water crisis

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Rock Island’s “bathtub ring” illustrates how the water level at Lake Mead has dropped. It is at 1,085 feet, 10 above a level that would tr...
December 5, 2014

Water Woes Among Topics For 8 Governors In Vegas

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A view of the Colorado River from a scenic overlook at Glen Canyon on Nov. 22, 2004, in Page, Ariz. (Photo by Jeff Topping/Getty Images) K...
August 13, 2014

More Water Headed To Struggling Lake Mead

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In this July 16, 2014 photo, what was once the Echo Bay Marina sits high and dry next to Lake Mead in the Lake Mead National Recreation Ar...
June 28, 2014

The race to stop Las Vegas from running dry

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Amid a brutal drought the reservoir that supplies 90 per cent of Las Vegas’s water is fast disappearing and desperate attempts to save Sin C...
April 20, 2014

Drought -- and neighbors -- press Las Vegas to conserve water

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Lake Mead, the reservoir that supplies 90% of Las Vegas' water, is ebbing as though a plug had been pulled from a bathtub drain. Lake Me...
January 28, 2014

Western residents face threat of water rationing as feds reduce water flow

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The 13-year-long drought has resulted in Lake Mead's water level falling over 120 feet, thus endangering the primary water supply for La...
January 5, 2014

Colorado River Drought Forces a Painful Reckoning

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To help the Colorado, federal authorities this year will for the first time reduce the water flow into Lake Mead, the nation’s largest res...
December 12, 2013

Court rejects Las Vegas' groundwater rights to rural valleys

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Nevada decision fails to protect water users, including those in Utah’s Snake Valley, judge says. View of Spring Valley from June, 2013. (Br...
February 26, 2013

Woman Speaks Out on Ranching Empire

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SNWA owns seven rustic ranches in Spring Valley By George Knapp and Matt Adams 8 News NOW SPRING VALLEY, Nev. -- The Southern Nevada Wa...
December 28, 2012

BLM’s decision on Nevada-Utah pipeline called ‘pure folly’

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Proposed pipline (Las Vegas Sun) By Brian Maffly The Salt Lake Tribune L as Vegas’ plan to tap billions of gallons of groundwater lu...
December 27, 2012

BLM approves Las Vegas water pipeline project

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A planned pipeline would carry water from areas along the Nevada-Utah line into Las Vegas Valley. (JASON BEAN/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL FILE...