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    USDA Reevaluates Plan To Turn Ditch Into Water Pipeline

    Mar 02, 2021

    RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal agency and a Nevada water conservation district have agreed to re-evaluate a preliminary plan to turn part of a 140-year-old irrigation ditch in Reno into a water pipeline.

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    Nevada Stakeholders Oppose Utah's Lake Powell Pipeline Project

    Sep 17, 2020

    Utter the word “pipeline,” and you’ll likely see heads raise and disagreements arise.

    But one proposed water pipeline project in Utah has forged some unlikely allies in opposition. 

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    Judge Again Rejects Las Vegas Water Pipeline From Rural Valleys

    Mar 11, 2020

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — A state judge has again rejected a decades-long bid to tap groundwater beneath vast rangelands in northeast Nevada and pipe it to fast-growing suburbs and gambling resorts in Las Vegas.

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    Decade-Old Legal Battle Over Nevada Water Pipeline Resumes

    Nov 15, 2019

    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.

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    Water Authority, Clark County Argue Over Nevada Pipeline

    Nov 01, 2019

    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.

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    Proposed Changes In Nevada Could Give State Engineer More Authority Over Water Rights

    Mar 21, 2019

    Farmers and conservationists are oftentimes at odds with one another over politics and policy. 

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    Explainer: Dry Gleaning

    Nov 01, 2018

    There’s a gush of water news, most of it bad.

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    Authority To Appeal Key Las Vegas Pipeline Water Rights Ruling

    Sep 14, 2018

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Water officials aren't giving up a nearly 30-year effort to get state approval to pump groundwater from arid valleys just west of the Utah state line and pipe it to faucets and fountains in Las Vegas.

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    Sisolak Against SNWA's Proposed Water Pipeline

    Sep 11, 2018

    Gubernatorial contender Steve Sisolak has come out against the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s proposal to build a pipeline project to route water from Eastern Nevada aquifers to Las Vegas. 

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    Nevada Water Chief Rejects Big Las Vegas Pipeline Pumping Plan

    Aug 20, 2018

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada's top state water official has dealt a severe blow to long-fought plans for Las Vegas to pump drinking water from arid valleys just west of the Nevada-Utah state line.

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    Top Nevada Water Official Begins Key Las Vegas Pipeline Hearings ​

    Sep 25, 2017

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada's top state water official begins two weeks of hearings Monday on a crucial question in a plan for Las Vegas to drill drinking water wells beneath arid rural valleys just west of the Nevada-Utah state line.

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    Las Vegas Water Pipeline Fight Goes To Federal Court

    Jul 31, 2017

    A years-long fight over tapping rural water for city use is about to get a first-ever hearing before a federal judge in Las Vegas.

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    Like Yucca Mtn., The Water Pipeline Plan Remains Alive

    Jun 19, 2017

    As Southern Nevada boomed, the level of Lake Mead—our main water source--dropped. Deeper straws were built to keep whatever water remains in the lake flowing to our homes.

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    The SNWA's Water Pipeline Faces Opposition

    Jan 29, 2013

    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?.

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    Nevada Native Americans Fighting Water Pipeline

    Jun 01, 2012
    More than three hundred groups including ranchers and environmentalists are suing the Southern Nevada Water Authority to stop the 300-mile water pipeline. Other groups now suing the State Engineer Jason King include Native American groups like the Goshute Tribe.
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