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Groundwater pumping has significantly reduced US stream flows

Groundwater pumping has significantly reduced US stream flows

August 11, 2022Posted inClimate Change, Colorado River, News and information, On The Water Front, Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), The Economy, Virgin River, Virgin River Water District, Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB)
by University of Arizona The circles from this satellite image are crops in southwestern Kansas watered by central pivot irrigation, which draws water from a well in the center of each…

Ask Not What Your Water Board Attorney Can Do for You, but What You Can Do for the Attorney.

May 14, 2022Posted inMesquite Irrigation Company, Nevada Legislature, News and information, On The Water Front, Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), The Economy, Virgin River, Virgin River Water District, Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB)
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…

WATER AND GROWTH IN MESQUITE: WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE DON’T KNOW

May 8, 2022Posted inMesquite Irrigation Company, News and information, On The Water Front, Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), The Economy, Virgin River, Virgin River Water District, Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB), Virgin Valley Water District
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…
Update: Beware of Water Board Bearing Gifts (Part 2 of 2)

Update: Beware of Water Board Bearing Gifts (Part 2 of 2)

April 9, 2022Posted inBunkerville Irrigation Company, Climate Change, Colorado River, Health, Mesquite Irrigation Company, Muddy River Irrigation Company, Nevada Legislature, News and information, On The Water Front, Political Analysis, Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), The Economy, Virgin River, Virgin River Water District, Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB), Virgin Valley Water District
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…
Drought Partnership Funded

Drought Partnership Funded

March 29, 2022Posted inClimate Change, Colorado River, Mesquite Irrigation Company, Muddy River Irrigation Company, News and information, On The Water Front, Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), The Economy, Virgin River, Virgin River Water District, Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB), Virgin Valley Water District
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…

Beware of a Water Board bearing gifts (Part 1 of 2)

March 6, 2022Posted inClimate Change, Colorado River, Nevada Legislature, News and information, On The Water Front, Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), The Economy, Virgin River, Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB)
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

February 20, 2022Posted inClimate Change, Colorado River, Features, Nevada Legislature, News and information, On The Water Front, Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), The Economy, Virgin River, Virgin River Water District, Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB)
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

Virgin Valley Water Board Goes to Supreme Court to Avoid Jury Review of Rate Setting Practices

January 16, 2022Posted inColorado River, News and information, On The Water Front, Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), The Economy, Virgin River, Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB)
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

December 27, 2021Posted inColorado River, News and information, On The Water Front, Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), The Economy, Virgin River, Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB)
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…
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