May 4, 2012--Movie review: 'Last Call at the Oasis' smartly sounds alarm on...
"Last Call on the Oasis" is a playful title for a film that couldn't be more deadly serious. A thorough examination of the epic crises threatening the world's water supply, crises that few people are...
View ArticleJanuary 1, 2013--BLM OKs massive Nevada pipeline project (Summit Voice)
Conservation advocates say they will challenge the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of a 250-mile pipeline project designed to drain central Nevada aquifers and deliver water to Las Vegas. The...
View ArticleOctober 19, 2013--Colorado River faces most critical snow season in recent...
Pray for snow. That’s about all Southwestern water users can do as the drought-stricken Colorado River enters what figures to be its most important snow season in recent memory. After 14 years of...
View ArticleDecember 11, 2013--Judge rejects plan for Vegas to draw rural water...
A Nevada judge has rejected crucial state approval needed for Las Vegas to draw water from rural valleys straddling the Nevada-Utah state line and pipe it south to slake the thirst of Sin City...
View ArticleJanuary 15, 2014--New water chief lays out plans for S. Nevada's water future...
The new man in charge of the Las Vegas Valley Water District says if southern Nevada follows his steps, it should have enough water to last through the years and years of drought. Most of southern...
View ArticleJanuary 27, 2014--Western residents face threat of water rationing as feds...
For years, experts have been warning people in the American West they will have to make do with less water in the future. That dryer future already may have arrived. This year, for the first time in...
View ArticleJune 13, 2014--Last straw: How the fortunes of Las Vegas will rise or fall...
The bathtub ring can be seen for miles. The 120-foot-high band of rock, bleached nearly white by mineral-rich water, circles the shoreline of Lake Mead. Water levels have dropped by almost 100 feet in...
View ArticleJuly 6, 2014--Losing the race to stop Las Vegas from running totally dry...
As with many things in Sin City, the apparently endless supply of water is an illusion. America's most decadent destination has been engaged in a potentially catastrophic gamble with nature, and now,...
View ArticleNovember 22, 2014--Panel recommends $650 million Lake Mead project, rate hike...
A community advisory committee is recommending a new $650 million water project — and a rate hike to pay for it — to secure the Las Vegas Valley’s water supply even under a worst case scenario at Lake...
View ArticleJuly 6, 2015--Las Vegas completing final work to draw water from a shrinking...
It took $817 million, two starts, more than six years and one worker's life to drill a so-called "Third Straw" to make sure glittery casinos and sprawling suburbs of Las Vegas can keep getting drinking...
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