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In Nevada, all water sources within the State’s boundaries, above and below ground, belong to the public. Nevada Revised Statute (NRS) 533.025 and 534.020.
- Trump Court lowers EPA Sewage Treatment Plant enforcementBy Miranda Willson, Pamela King A@E @ A News at Politico On Tuesday, March 4, 2025, “President” Donald Trump’s Supreme Court majority struck down one of EPA’s long-standing tools for ensuring sewage treatment plants and industrial sites do not degrade water quality.he 5-4 ruling in San Francisco v. EPA blocks the agency from holding the West Coast city…
- Bureau of Reclamation announces $177 million in Colorado River funding.
- Southern Nevada Water Authority Virgin, Muddy River and Coyote Spring Valley Leases and Purchases August, 2023Push link on purchase order
- SNWA and Profiteering Through the Intentionally Created Surplus Doctrine“Our state’s comprehensive water statutes do not permit the reallocation of water rights already adjudicated and settled under the prior appropriation doctrine. In doing so, we reaffirm that the public trust doctrine applies in Nevada and clarify that the doctrine applies to all waters within the state, including those previously allocated under the prior appropriation,”…
- Can Prior Appropriations Coxist With the Public Trust Doctrine?History 1924 Walker Lake Paiute Tribe water rights In 1924, the United States brought a case in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada to establish water rights for the Walker Lake Paiute Tribe (the Tribe). The case resulted in the Walker River Decree (the Decree) in 1936, [1]which adjudicated the water…
