ELY, Nev. (AP) — A decade-long legal battle over a plan to pump groundwater from eastern Nevada to Las Vegas resumed this week with lawyers on both sides arguing over differing parts of a former state engineer’s decision to block the plan.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Clark County officials have proposed a public lands bill aiming to create new conservation areas and allow for more development, but critics in Nevada and Utah say its language could permit a proposed water pipeline project.
Members of several tribes, including the Navajo and Southern Shoshoni, met in Las Vegas last week to discuss their opposition to a massive groundwater pumping project.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority has voted to spend up to $7.5 million over the next 10 years in exchange for more Colorado River water from Mexico.
Rate payers will see an increase in their water bills after the Southern Nevada Water Authority agreed today to press ahead with a $650 million pumping...
The Southern Nevada Water Authority wants to raise water rates to pay off $3 billion in construction debt. If it is approved, the rate increase will be the second in two years. How will the rate increase affect the average homeowner?
Bureau of Land Managament scientists have given the Southern Nevada Water Authority the rights to build a water pipeline, even though environmentalists are opposed to the project. What did the BLM see in their scientific research to give SNWA the go-ahead?.
Southern Nevada Water Authority General Manager Pat Mulroy has called it the most complicated construction project in the country. It claimed its first victim yesterday when 44-year-old Thomas Turner was killed by a stream of grout and rock under high pressure.
