Colorado River Project
Click on the banner, here or the first sentence under Goals to enter the project site Goals This project explores alternative Colorado River water supply and river management strategies. Our…
Groundwater pumping has significantly reduced US stream flows
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…
Lake Mead Hits Anothr Low
BOULDER CITY, Nev. – Lake Mead, the reservoir created by Hoover Dam, is anticipated this week to reach its lowest water level since the lake’s initial filling in the 1930s.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
