Water Board Defies Legislative Policy In Important Water Study
Mesquite, Nv. Tonight, the Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB) voted to spend $45,000 on a water study that violates Nevada water policy in an apparent act of legislative defiance. And…
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…
Water Board Attorney Denigrates Nevada Business During Court Hearing
Las Vegas, Nv. On November 06, 2020, Jedediah (Bo) Bingham, the attorney for The Virgin Valley Water District (VVWD), amused himself by denigrating the owners and attorneys for the local…
Virgin Valley Water Board Blames City Council For Increase Costs
Note: Mike McGreer is a candidate for the Mesquite seat on the Virgin Valley Water Board November election. Mesquite, NV. As expected, the Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB) on Tuesday…
Logical Inconsistencies Drive VVWB Policy On Water: Endanger Community
Mesquite, NV. The Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB) plans to spend $41,573,374 in capital expenses to improve the local water infrastructure to meet their projections of growth over the next…
Water Board Usurps Court With Threatening Motion
Mesquite, NV. On August 4, the Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB) voted unanimously to declare the Lease between the Virgin Valley Water District (VVWD) and Paradise Canyon (dba Wolf Creek…
Public Interest Considered In Water Re-Allocations
On June 15, 2020, Tim Wilson, the Nevada State Water Engineer, issued order 1309. That order held that the public's interest in the Moapa dace had equal rights to those…
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…
Judge Ends SNWA Eastern Nevada Water Grab
On March 9th Seventh Judicial District Court Judge Robert Estes denied an appeal by the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) to transfer 91,000 Acre Feet Yearly (AFY) of groundwater from…
High County News Interviews Ten Tribes Leader On Colorado River Issues
Anna V. Smith INTERVIEW March 10, 2020 High Country News spoke with Daryl Vigil (Jicarilla Apache, Jemez Pueblo and Zia Pueblo), water administrator for the Jicarilla Apache Nation. Vigil, the interim executive…
