Blogger finds 1989 draft report of Southern Nevada Water Authority pipeline project; document “has lots of ugly implications for the environment, the economies and the governments of rural Nevada”

From Rake’s Green Vegas Blog:

Hey, remember how the Southern Nevada Water Authority bought up just about every ranch in White Pine County’s huge Spring Valley and claimed that it was doing so to “manage” groundwater levels? And remember how we thought that was a lot of cowflop because the SNWA doesn’t do anything if it doesn’t serve the interests of the Las Vegas developers who call the shots?

Well, funny enough, I found a document last week that dates way back to the antediluvian days of 1989. It appears to be the first draft of the study of the impacts of the Southern Nevada Water Grab, and lays out a road map for the exportation of many billions of water from the rurals to the urban area.

The study notes that if the state Water Engineer denies a large portion of the SNWA request (then under the auspices of the Las Vegas Valley Water District) the agency will buy up ranches and take the water anyway in what the authors call “water ranching.”

“In the event the District (the SNWA) is unable to win approval of enough of it’s (sic) applied for water, outright purchase of existing water rights within Lincoln, Nye, Clark and White Pine counties is another vehicle available to acquire enough water to meet the anticipated needs of Las Vegas,” it says.

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