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…
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…
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…
Take down the Glen Canyon Dam. Save the Colorado River
It is called "Rewilding." The idea aims to take down the Glen Canyon Dam and allow the Colorado River to flow through the Glen Canyon and other sandstone gorges as…
Virgin Valley Water Board Goes to Supreme Court to Avoid Jury Review of Rate Setting Practices
The Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB) has retained former Nevada Lieutenant Governor (2015 to 2019) Mark Hutchison of Hutchison & Steffen, PLLC, Las Vegas, to take a rate-setting issue to…
Cortez Masto Announces $40 Million to Fight Drought in Nevada and Across the West
For Immediate Release Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) announced today that funds she worked to secure to fight drought are being delivered to Nevada through the bipartisan Infrastructure…
Reclamation to Focus on Partnership During Colorado River Conference
For Release: December 15, 2021 LAS VEGAS – Facing continued dry hydrology, the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation will focus on partnerships and cooperation during the Colorado…
Federal Intervention, Conflict and Drought in the American West
By Colby Galliher, Ishita Krishan Monday, December 6, 2021, 11:22 AM The vast rangelands of the American West have been the site of competition and conflict for hundreds of years. And drought…
Public Costs Rise as Losses Rocket in Nevada Water Case
Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB) attorney Jedediah (Bo) Bingham in a never-ending saga of seemingly frivolous legal motions filed by him at taxpayer expense in a three-year-six-month-old water pricing case. In…
