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…
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…
It’s Time to Drain Lake Powell
By Peter Deneen at Gizmodo Nearly 25 years later, the campaign to bypass Glen Canyon Dam has never been stronger. Now may seem like an odd time to make the…
Water Board Attorney goes down Rabbit hole in Nevada water pricing case
Las Vegas, NV. Fourteen days after Virgin Valley Water Board attorney Jedediah (Bo) Bingham took Clark County District Court Judge Timothy Williams into Allice in Wonderland Territory, he led him…
A cost effective and quick way to find groundwater in arid regions
26-Oct-2021 8:35 AM EDT, by University of South Australia Newswise — Water is a scarce commodity in many countries worldwide, but new cost-effective technology pioneered by researchers in Australia, Egypt…
On the Water Front: Shortage, Accelerated
Since our last check-in on the Colorado River’s water shortage, our water forecast has only worsened. Meanwhile, the political forecast for federal climate action remains as bleak as ever. As we face a worsening water shortage, and as we contend with the apparent shortage in political will to properly address climate change, let’s examine why this pair of shortages is such a huge problem for us.
