Environmentalist Added to Supreme Court Commission
On March 9, 2021, the Nevada Supreme Court created the Commission to Study the Adjudication of Water Law Cases. And on March 30, 2021, Chief Justice James W. Hardesty appointed…
Ask Not What Your Water Board Attorney Can Do for You, but What You Can Do for the Attorney.
Virgin Valley Water District Board On May 4, the Nevada Supreme Court threw out the third and final attempt by Virgin Valley Water District Board to avoid going to trial…
Notes and highlights from “Cadillac Desert” by Marc Reisner
Presented by Michael Manford McGreer, MesquiteWaterAlliance.com
WATER AND GROWTH IN MESQUITE: WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE DON’T KNOW
By Mark Hill, Watershed Scientist Virgin River, Mesquite, Nevada Climate change, a 20+-year mega-drought in the Southwest and disappearing Colorado River water raises the specter of insufficient water to support…
Reclamation Puts Arizona Ahead of Nevada in Water Allocations
SALT LAKE CITY – Yesterday, The Bureau of Reclamation announced two separate urgent drought response actions that will help prop up Lake Powell by nearly 1 million acre-feet (maf) of water…
Update: Beware of Water Board Bearing Gifts (Part 2 of 2)
Carson City, NV, April 5. "Rehearing denied." With those two words, the Nevada Supreme Court again rejected an attempt by attorneys for the Virgin Valley Water Board to usurp traditional…
Colorado River Demand Reductions Urged During Symposium
On March 17 and 18, 2022, policymakers, legal pundits, and scientists gathered once again to reexamine the management of the Colorado River Basin. The event hosted by the Wallace Stegner…
Drought Partnership Funded
Cortez Masto Announces Grant Funding to Combat Drought in Nevada Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) announced that the University of Nevada, Reno will receive a $149,923 grant…
Lake Powell’s storage capacity updated for first time since 1986
SALT LAKE CITY – A new report released today and compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the Bureau of Reclamation provides updated information on Lake Powell’s storage…
Beware of a Water Board bearing gifts (Part 1 of 2)
Mesquite, NV. March 7. When elected officials want to convince the public of their good intentions, they outsource strategies to contractors. Outsourcing allows elected officials to control the information delivered…
