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June 10, 2005
Rural Nevada counties draft plan to keep water from Las Vegas
Elected officials in six rural Nevada counties have drafted a plan to form a cooperative authority to keep the water beneath their feet from being pumped to urban southern Nevada.
The proposal made public yesterday for a Central Nevada Regional Water Authority comes in response to a Southern Nevada Water Authority plan to build a $2 billion pipeline to siphon groundwater from White Pine and Lincoln counties to thirsty Clark County.
"We have a lot of water, but we want to make sure we keep it and that it doesn't go to the cities," Mickey Yarbro, a Lander county commissioner, told the Las Vegas Sun. "This will protect our water that we are going to need down the road 30 or 40 years from now," as reported by The Associated Press and published by The Las Vegas Sun.
"Water goes where the water is needed,"Southern Nevada Water Authority spokesman Vince Alberta said. "The water is a resource for all the citizens of Nevada and it is not dictated by county lines."
This should be an interesting confrontation. Water rights are a big issue everywhere, and in Nevada, Clark County has 70 percent of the State's population.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at June 10, 2005 06:33 PM
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