Topic - Southern Nevada Water Authority

The Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) was formed in 1991 to manage Southern Nevada's water needs on a regional basis. The Authority comprises seven member agencies including the City of Henderson, City of Las Vegas, City of North Las Vegas, Big Bend Water District (Laughlin), Clark County Water Reclamation District and the Las Vegas Valley Water District. - Source: Wikipedia

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This photo taken Monday, April 25, 2022, by the Southern Nevada Water Authority shows the top of Lake Mead drinking water Intake No. 1 above the surface level of the Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam. The intake is the uppermost of three in the deep, drought-stricken lake that provides Las Vegas with 90% of its drinking water supply. (Southern Nevada Water Authority via AP) ** FILE **

Vegas water intake now visible at drought-stricken Lake Mead

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Sprinklers water grass near a street corner Friday, April 9, 2021, in the Summerlin neighborhood of northwest Las Vegas. A desert city built on a reputation for excess wants to become a model for restraint with a first-in-the-nation policy limiting water use by banning grass that nobody walks on. Las Vegas area water officials are asking the state Legislature to pass a law banning &quot;non-functional turf.&quot; (AP Photo/Ken Ritter)

Water-worried Vegas wants useless grass a thing of the past

By SAM METZ and KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file photo is the Swamp Cedar Natural Area, a tribal site known as the swamp cedars, considered sacred by a number of Shoshone tribes in Ely, northeast Nevada. Lawmakers are considering strengthening protections for trees that Native Americans in northeastern Nevada consider sacred. The Duckwater and Ely Shoshone tribes have used swamp cedars in Spring Valley to memorialize their ancestors lost in three 19th century massacres and have long joined others in efforts to block a proposed pipeline that would siphon groundwater from rural valleys to Las Vegas. (Benjamin Spillman/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP, File)

Scrapped Vegas pipeline plan looms amid swamp cedar debate

By SAM METZ - Associated Press

Nevada water authority backs out of $15B pipeline project

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FILE - This March 23, 2012, file photo shows pipes extending into Lake Mead well above the high water mark near Boulder City, Nev. A Nevada state judge has again put a halt to a decades-long bid to tap groundwater beneath vast rangelands in northeast Nevada and pipe it to fast-growing suburbs and glittering gambling resorts in and around Las Vegas. In a strongly worded written ruling, Judge Robert Estes said Monday, March 9, 2020, he saw no reason to undo findings he made in December 2013 that crippled a Southern Nevada Water Authority plan to spend billions of dollars to pump groundwater some 300 miles (482 kilometers) from four rural valleys in White Pine and Lincoln counties near the Utah border. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Vegas giving up bid to pump, pipe water from rural valleys

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - This March 23, 2012, file photo shows pipes extending into Lake Mead well above the high water mark near Boulder City, Nev. A Nevada state judge has again put a halt to a decades-long bid to tap groundwater beneath vast rangelands in northeast Nevada and pipe it to fast-growing suburbs and glittering gambling resorts in and around Las Vegas. In a strongly worded written ruling, Judge Robert Estes said Monday, March 9, 2020, he saw no reason to undo findings he made in December 2013 that crippled a Southern Nevada Water Authority plan to spend billions of dollars to pump groundwater some 300 miles (482 kilometers) from four rural valleys in White Pine and Lincoln counties near the Utah border. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Judge again rejects Vegas water pipeline from rural valleys

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

Decade-old legal battle over Nevada water pipeline resumes

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Vegas-area water agencies laying off 101 workers

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Lawsuits seek to block Las Vegas water pipeline

By SANDRA CHEREB - Associated Press

Appeals filed over Las Vegas water rights

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Too wacky? Moving water from flood to drought

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press