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Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 | 2:05 a.m.
CARSON CITY — State Engineer Jason King has set new deadlines for handling the applications filed in 1989 to pump billions of gallons of water from rural Nevada to Las Vegas.
King hopes to make a final decision by December 2011 on the requests of the Southern Nevada Water Authority to draw groundwater from the Spring, Cave, Dry Lake and Delamar valleys in Eastern Nevada.
The Supreme Court in February overturned the ruling of the previous state engineer, Tracy Taylor, that allowed 58,000 acre feet to be pumped to Southern Nevada to take care of its population. As a result, the case returned to its original applications.
The water authority filed new applications in January and there were 2,300 protests lodged.
King anticipates hearings to be held in July and August 2011 in Carson City.
The Supreme Court voided the previous decision because the water ruling for SNWA was not made within a year.
King said, “All are hereby informed that the state engineer is going to complete the hearing and decision-making process within that one-year time frame.”
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Las vegas doesn't have jobs, why would it need more water? Stop the Building!!
Vegas still has a population that needs water. Building the pipeline would bring jobs to Nevada and some of these to the LV area. Let's not be naive, the Colorado can't be expected to be the only water source to this part of the State. At the very least, bring water from other regions gives some back-up if the current drought continues.
Ever heard the expression "if you make more, you spend more". I'm sure Las Vegas can use the extra water but in reality LV can live without it. If they bring in more water to LV people will just end up wasting it anyway by watering grass which doesn't even belong in the Mojave desert. Nobody should have grass out here, not even the country clubs or any of the parks and golf courses. As soon as you eliminate that, you ensure Las Vegas's water security future for the next 50 years. The only thing people should be using water for in LV is for drinking, cooking, cleaning, bathing, cooling (swamp coolers, fountains), swimming pools, toilets and saunas. People shouldn't even have bath tubs. Those should be illegal and everyone forced to use showers instead.
It's all a matter of adapting to ones environment. For example. It is about wanting what you got instead of getting what you want. Water is a finite resource.
Keep in mind that the building of the Lake Mead, Lake Powell were funded to create jobs, the proposal to build the pipeline to pump water from the valleys in Northern Nevada is based on the same concept without any thought of what will happen to the ecosytem, these proposed pumping sites are not immune from the on-going drought. Nevada is the number 1 driest state and Utah is the second driest. There has not been much snowpack in the mountains to sustain adequate recharge for the huge volume of water proposed for the pumping. It will be a huge mistake to pump water away from the Northern valleys.