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…
Powell and Mead Water Reduced by 15% to Deal With Drought
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022— As the worsening drought crisis continues to impact communities across the West, the Department of the Interior today announced urgent action to improve and protect…
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.…
When Will Mesquite Hit the “Water Wall”?
Editor's Note: The City Council sets the demand for water through zoning and licensing. Once approved, the Water District Board tells the city council that they can deliver water to…
Water Scientist Address Water Conservation: Las Vegas and Mesquite, NV Mentioned
On May 31, 2022, the Desert Valley Times published an article by Suman Naishadham of the Associated Press dealing with how the cities in the West deal with water issues during…
WATER AND GROWTH IN MESQUITE: WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT WE DON’T KNOW
By Mark Hill, Watershed Scientist Climate change, a 20+-year mega-drought in the Southwest and disappearing Colorado River water raises the specter of insufficient water to support our cities and…
Environmentalist Added to Supreme Court Commission
On March 9, 2021, the Nevada Supreme Court created the Commission to Study the Adjudication of Water Law Cases. And on March 30, 2021, Chief Justice James W. Hardesty appointed…
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…
