Mesquite, Nv. Tonight, the Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB) voted to spend $45,000 on a water study that violates Nevada water policy in an apparent
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Public Trust Doctrine disallows reallocation of adjudicated water rights, Nevada Supreme Court says.
On Sept 17, the Nevada Supreme Court[i] ruled after oral arguments in the Walker Case”[ii] [iii] that the public trust doctrine is embedded in curren
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Climate change is a worldwide crisis. It’s easy to forget this when America is in a constant state of “crisis of crises”. But with wildfires still bur
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According to new federal government forecast models, the Colorado River will remain in drought conditions for at least the next five years. Between th
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Mesquite, NV. The Virgin Valley Water Board (VVWB) plans to spend $41,573,374 in capital expenses to improve the local water infrastructure to meet
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On June 15, 2020, Tim Wilson, the Nevada State Water Engineer, issued order 1309. That order held that the public's interest in the Moapa dace had eq
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With 2020 becoming “the year of quarantine”, it’s easy to forget that Nevada and the rest of the American West have so much to offer outdoors. Yet des
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https://youtu.be/udmZhrl98VI Mesquite, Nevada is the latest town to have a Black Lives Matter protest. In the searing 106 degree heat, over 150 pr
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For decades, Nevada’s unofficial official motto has been “growth begets growth”. We were told that whatever suits the “growth industrial complex” is w
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Anna V. Smith INTERVIEW March 10, 2020 High Country News spoke with Daryl Vigil (Jicarilla Apache, Jemez Pueblo and Zia Pueblo), water admi
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