Biden Picks Nevada Native As Water Commissioner
CARSON CITY — Last Friday, President Joe Biden nominated Nevada native Camille Touton, an experienced congressional water adviser, as the next commissioner of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation. If…
Coming This Summer: We Return “To the Water Front”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLBc_PXDaOE For those who have been following along with our climate change coverage for the last three years, this doesn’t come as too much of a surprise. But particularly in…
Perennial Yield Addressed In Water Planning Efforts
In 1967, Dr. George B. Maxey (1917-1977), Executive Director of the Desert Research Institute Water Resources Center, Reno, addressed the perennial yield concept in groundwater management. [i] He argued that…
What A Difference Decades Make: Hoover Dam Overspill 1984
The video provided by “SolarSteveW” showed Hoover Dam in June 1983 when water flowed over the spillways. According to SolarSteveW, the only other time Hoover Dam experienced such an event…
Nevada Supreme Court Creates A Commission to Study the Adjudication of Water Law Cases
The Nevada Supreme Court has created a Commission to Study the Adjudication of Water Law Cases to improve the education, training, specialization, timeliness, and efficiency of Nevada's district court in…
Time to Evaluate Water Board Attorney Performance in Water Pricing Case
On Monday, April 19, and on May 3, Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB) Attorney Jedidiah (Bo) Bingham again went to court. This time, to present his contention that Mesquite's Wolf…
Water Bill Passes Senate
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) released the following statement after the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act passed the Senate on a bipartisan, 89-2…
Managing Water With NASA DATA
By Nikki Tulley, contributing writer, Maddie Ecker, Earth Applied Sciences Writer Water is scarce and drought is pervasive in the American southwest where The Navajo Nation is located. The Water Resources program…
Water Board Attorney Attacks Judges Rulings in Water Case
On Monday, Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB) Attorney Jedidiah (Bo) Bingham announced his intention to continue with frivolous and burdensome motions to overcome previous rulings against him and his publicly…
Drought To Persist
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce News & Features March 18, 2021 Nearly one-half of the country — stretching from the Pacific Coast to the Great Plains…
