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…
Drought Intensifies In Western U.S.
CBS News: Extreme drought across the Western U.S. has become as reliable as a summer afternoon thunderstorm in Florida. And news headlines about drought in the West can seem a…
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…
Uncertainty Drive Water Planning Along The Colorado River, Authorities Say
Balancing growth with climate change and the economic impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic creates a high-level of uncertainty for water planners along the Colorado River Basin, according to the…
Mesquite Water Board Defense in Law Suit Based On “reporter” Investigation, Attorney Argues
Las Vegas, Nv. For about 10-billable hours, over two court days, the publicly paid attorney for the Virgin Valley Water District (VVWD), Mesquite, Nv. babbled on-and-on about the use of…
Walker River Grant Announced
[Editor's note: On September 17, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled after oral arguments in the Walker Case" that the public trust doctrine is embedded in current water law and disallows the relocation…
Public Trust Doctrine disallows reallocation of adjudicated water rights, Nevada Supreme Court says.
On Sept 17, the Nevada Supreme Court[i] ruled after oral arguments in the Walker Case”[ii] [iii] that the public trust doctrine is embedded in current water law[iv] and disallows the…
BLM Investigating Ryan Bundy For Gold Butte Irrigation Violations
On Wednesday, Jennifer Yachnin, for Greenwire, reported that The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is investigating if Nevada rancher Ryan Bundy illegally built a new irrigation infrastructure in the Gold…
Beneficial Use of Fracking Water Considered
Oil and gas companies are increasingly treating and reusing flow-back water from fracked wells, which, unlike freshwater, is very high in salt, with good results. The practice scales down the…
Water For Fracking in Nevada’s Great Basin Identified
At least nine of fourteen aquifers in Nevada's Great Basin would likely provide water should natural gas fracking occur on federal lands in Nevada’s Great Basin where their exists oil…
