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High court ruling could help Nevada's water conservation efforts

Coyote Springs Golf Course on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012 in Coyote Spring, Nev.
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Coyote Springs Golf Course on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012 in Coyote Spring, Nev.

We cook with it, bathe in it and keep our plants alive with it.

But fresh water is a scarce resource. UNICEF says half the world could be facing water scarcities by 2025.

And many of those places aren’t like Las Vegas, where it’s very hot and the air is very dry year round. So here, careful management of water is crucial to the survival of Nevada.

And now, akey legal decision by Nevada’s Supreme Court could help to better manage and conserve our groundwater.


Guests: Patrick Donnelly, Great Basin director, Center for Biological Diversity; Rhiannon Saegert, environmental reporter, Las Vegas Sun 

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Joe Schoenmann joined Nevada Public Radio in 2014. He works with a talented team of producers at State of Nevada who explore the casino industry, sports, politics, public health and everything in between.