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Trump Court lowers EPA Sewage Treatment Plant enforcement
By Miranda Willson, Pamela King A@E @ A News at Politico On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, “President” Donald Trump’s Supreme Court majority struck down one of EPA’s long-standing tools for ensuring…
Bureau of Reclamation announces $177 million in Colorado River funding.
The Bureau of Reclamation announced nearly $177 million in funding for water projects in Colorado. The funds will help address the impacts of drought and climate change on water supplies…
Southern Nevada Water Authority Virgin, Muddy River and Coyote Spring Valley Leases and Purchases August, 2023
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SNWA and Profiteering Through the Intentionally Created Surplus Doctrine
“Our state's comprehensive water statutes do not permit the reallocation of water rights already adjudicated and settled under the prior appropriation doctrine. In doing so, we reaffirm that the public…
Can Prior Appropriations Coxist With the Public Trust Doctrine?
History 1924 Walker Lake Paiute Tribe water rights In 1924, the United States brought a case in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada to establish water…
Virgin Valley Water Board Virgin River Stock Purchases 1993-2010
Article 8, Section 9 of the Nevada Constitution, known as the gift clause. That article states: "The State shall not donate or loan money, or its credit, subscribe to or…
The Colorado River water crisis: Its origin and the future by Schmidt, Yackulic and Kuhn
By John C. Schmidt, Charles B. Yackulic, Eric Kuhn The Colorado River water-supply crisis is real and ongoing. Although the root cause of the problem is declining runoff in a warming climate,…
