Tagged: SNWA

Environment & Public Lands
1:35 pm
Fri April 5, 2013

Nevada Environmentalists Applaud Utah Decision

Credit U.S. Bureau of Land Management
Snake Valley is located on the Utah-Nevada state line

  Environmentalists who’ve been trying to stop a water pipeline from the Great Basin to Las Vegas are applauding a decision by Utah’s governor to reject an agreement between Utah and Nevada.

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Environment & Public Lands
1:42 pm
Mon August 6, 2012

Could Utah and Nevada Go to Court over Great Basin Water?

Snake Valley
Credit Dan Bammes
Snake Valley on the Utah-Nevada state line

The director of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, Pat Mulroy, is threatening to take the state of Utah to the U.S. Supreme Court over an agreement to allocate groundwater in the Snake Valley on the Utah-Nevada state line.  The statement was made in an e-mail to members of SNWA's board of directors.  The agreement was required by federal law before a pipeline could be built carrying water from the Great Basin to Las Vegas.  

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