Topic: Southern Nevada Water Authority

The Southern Nevada Water Authority has scaled back its request for water rights in rural Nevada and suggested some water be set aside for growth...

Water agency debt compels money grab

The Southern Nevada Water Authority's request to add a new charge to water bills is drawing the attention of groups who say the agency's mantra is shifting from "conserve" to "show us the money."That's a new mantra? Seems ...
Next spring, water bills will rise to help pay the Southern Nevada Water Authority's mounting debt used to fund some $3.3 billion in pumps, pipes and intakes installed over the past several years.The fee, which comes on top of ...
Last week, the public got a chance to voice its opinions on the Southern Nevada Water Authority's pipeline project.The state's elected officials, meanwhile, have for years been largely silent on the proposal to send water from rural Nevada to ...
The Southern Nevada Water Authority will begin scrutinizing the wages paid to an attorney who works for the agency on bond matters, after a board member expressed astonishment at the way the Water Authority keeps track of its money.Who raised the ...
The rattling of sabers in the battle over a proposed downtown noise ordinance has grown louder with the hiring of a prominent attorney/former state senator by a downtown nightclub owner.Councilman Ricki Barlow has said his office has been bombarded with ...
The Southern Nevada Water Authority approved a measure last week that some say could undermine years of water conservation efforts.In a 6-1 vote, the Water Authority agreed to allow homeowners and businesses to convert desert landscaping back to turf if a ...
By some estimates, Lake Mead could rise more than 50 feet by the end of the year, enough to make up nearly half the 120-foot drop that has occurred during 11 years of drought.Another two or three years of heavy snowfall ...

PIPELINE WORRIES RURAL NEVADANS

FIRST IN A SIX-PART SERIESTwenty-five years ago this summer, Life magazine named U.S. Highway 50, as it crosses Central Nevada, the loneliest road in America. A photo of a straight stretch of empty highway fixed it in the national imagination as ...
The post on bell-mouth spillways mentions a number of dams, and brought to mind one the most impressive dams in the world - the Hoover Dam. This...