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…
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
This historic legislation will: Deliver clean water to all American families and eliminate the nation’s lead service lines The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will invest $55 billion to expand access to…
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 Keeps Dropping
By NASA Earth Observatory July 6, 2000 July 3, 2002 Continuing a 22-year downward trend, water levels in Lake Mead stand at their lowest since April 1937, when the reservoir was…
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…
Notes and highlights from “Cadillac Desert” by Marc Reisner
Presented by Michael Manford McGreer, MesquiteWaterAlliance.com
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…
