Dry Well, Water Levels And Fracking
Mike McGreer is running for the Mesquite seat on the Virgin Valley Water Board. Mesquite, NV. The Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB) spent $2,280,885 to abandon a well (#34) because…
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…
What A Peacefull Protest Looks Like
https://youtu.be/udmZhrl98VI Mesquite, Nevada is the latest town to have a Black Lives Matter protest. In the searing 106 degree heat, over 150 protesters marched for justice following the memorial service…
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…
Cortez Masto, Rosen Applaud $20 Million in EPA Funding for Clean Water
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) applauded the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for awarding $20.6 million in State Revolving Funds (SRFs) to Nevada to…
Oral Arguments Set In Public Trust Vs. Water “Rights”Case
At 11 a.m. on March 3, the Nevada Supreme Court in Carson City will hear oral argument in what is commonly referred to as “The Walker Lake Case.”[i],[ii] In 1882,…
Accountant Ties Extensive Debt To Spurious Water Purchases
Mesquite, NV. “Substantial debt” incurred, in part, from the acquisition of highly polluted Virgin River water shares contributed to an increase of 35 % in 2010 and a 94 %[i],[ii]…
