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Headlines
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/not-much-snow-is-falling-in-the-west-what-a-grim-snowpack-means-for-nevadas-water-supply https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2017/10/12/why-southern-nevada-is-fighting-to-build-a-250-mile-water-pipeline https://knpr.org/knpr/2017-09/new-springs-preserve-attraction-boils-down-story-water https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/fall-watering-restrictions-begin-in-las-vegas-valley https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/science-and-technology/water-authority-to-fund-conservation-work-in-mexico/ http://grist.org/cities/longtime-vegas-water-czar-warns-other-cities-to-brace-for-climate-change https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/las-vegas-valley-water-district-among-nations-best-audit-shows

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Water Pipeline Lawsuit
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Judge-sends-Vegas-water-pipeline-plan-back-to-11956612.php http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/nevada-groundwater-08-24-2017.php https://www.courthousenews.com/environmentalists-fight-giant-water-project-las-vegas https://www.nativetimes.com/current-news/14719-las-vegas-water-pipeline-fight-to-go-before-federal-judge http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/las-vegas-water-pipeline-07-28-2017.php

The Center for Biological Diversity presented oral arguments Monday in U.S. District Court in a case that could decide whether a massive water pipeline to Las Vegas can be built. The Center argued that the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s $15.5 billion groundwater development project violates federal environmental laws and would endanger wildlife, public lands and rural communities. The case is being heard together with a second lawsuit brought by White Pine County, the Great Basin Water Network, American Indian tribes and other groups.

The Center for Biological Diversity and others want the federal court to stop the Bureau of Land Management from approving local plans to build a 263-mile water pipeline to Las Vegas. Monday’s hearing involved several motions for summary judgments, including dismissal.

The $15.5 billion project would siphon more than 7.8 billion gallons of precious groundwater each year from public lands in the eastern Nevada desert, pumping it more than 250 miles south to metropolitan Las Vegas.

The [|proposed pipeline] would traverse White Pine, Lincoln and Clark counties in east central Nevada. Each year it would pump and send 83,988 acre-feet of groundwater from the Spring, Delmar, Dry Lake and Cave valleys in east central Nevada to the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s facilities in Las Vegas.

An acre-foot is enough water to cover 1 acre 1 foot deep. City planners estimate that a typical suburban household uses one acre-foot of water a year.

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/where-the-water-goes

http://www.lvvwd.com - [|@lvvwd]

"The Southern Nevada Water Authority, speaking for Las Vegas, thinks the solution lies beneath four valleys in Eastern Nevada, with a multibillion dollar pipeline that would pump valley water into Las Vegas. The plan sounds sensible to most business owners and developers in Las Vegas and surrounding Clark County, but Nevadans further east, particularly farmers and ranchers, fear the project would deplete already scarce resources, threatening their way of life." - Jim Malewitz, [|More Water for Las Vegas Means More Resentment in Rural Areas]

The [|Federal government has warned] that water could run out for the city by 2025. More recently, researchers at the [|Scripps Institution of Oceanography said] there was a 50 percent chance that Lake Mead, which supplies Vegas, Los Angeles and San Diego with water, could run dry by 2021.

Related: [] [] [|Water isn’t a worry when it comes to Las Vegas growth] - [|@J_Robison1]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/08/28/california-drought-las-vegas-water-conservation/71288822 https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/follow-a-gallon-of-water-from-lake-mead-to-a-las-vegas-tap/

[|Lake Mead sinks to a record low] [] [] [] []
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Clark County ranks high on new 'water hogs' list http://dontbeadrip.org - [|@CenterForBioDiv]
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Lake Las Vegas
[|Lake Las Vegas, long viewed as a bust, is rebounding]

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/25556200/i-team-exposes-las-vegas-valleys-biggest-water-users Interactive Map of The Valley's Top Water Users
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Hoover Dam and Lake Mead
[|Hoover Dam] [|Lake Mead National Recreation Area]

http://www.reviewjournal.com/nevada-150/hoover-dam-delivered-nevada-could-have-gotten-more

Spotlight on Resorts
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Despite employing nearly a quarter of Southern Nevada's workforce, the leisure and hospitality industry uses only one tenth of of one percent of Nevada's water resources.

https://www.snwa.com/rebates/coupons_carwash.html

Invasive Species
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Old Mormon Fort

Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park
500 E. Washington Avenue [|Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park] - The first permanent non-native settlers in the Las Vegas Valley were a group of Mormon missionaries who built an adobe fort along Las Vegas Creek in 1855. The fort was called Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort. They successfully farmed the area by diverting water from the creek.Today, the park includes a remnant of the original adobe fort, which contains interpretive displays. The Visitor Center contains exhibits on the history of the site, as well as historic artifacts. Historic interpretation is and will remain the focus of the park. [] Related: [|Visit Old Mormon Fort to learn Las Vegas history] http://friendsofthefort.org

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