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	<title>Aquafornia &#187; Las Vegas &amp;  Nevada</title>
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		<title>Cutting water use is the best bet for Southern Nevada, says commentary</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61618</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun, this commentary by Sharlene Leurig, senior manager of the water and insurance programs at Ceres, a national coalition of investors and public interest groups: &#8220;Much of Nevada’s livelihood comes from gambling, but some things are too precious and too costly to gamble on. Unfortunately, gambling is exactly what the state’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proposals could mean big change for Colorado water</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61361</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61361#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Capital Press: &#8220;An opponent of hydraulic fracturing south of Denver is leading an effort to have voters decide on two proposals that critics say would change the way Colorado has handled water rights since 1876. The Colorado Constitution says unappropriated water in natural streams is public property, but water can be diverted for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern Nevada Water Authority seeks more groundwater from two rural counties</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61230</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Review-Journal: &#8220;They stop short of asking for it all, but Las Vegas water officials are urging the state to grant them far more rural groundwater than they got the last time around. In new documents now in the hands of State Engineer Jason King, the Southern Nevada Water Authority lays out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Vegas:  Great Basin Water Network says conservation is the answer, not pipeline</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61068</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;The Great Basin Water Network says Las Vegas should impose tighter conservation restrictions and raise water rates to discourage waste instead of building a $15 billion pipeline to shift water from rural Nevada to Clark County. The network, a major opponent of the pipeline, said protesters feel &#8220;approval of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern Nevada Water Authority scales back rural water request</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60962</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;The Southern Nevada Water Authority has scaled back its request for water rights in rural Nevada and suggested some water be set aside for growth in the four rural valleys where the water resides. In its recommendation, the authority said 104,854 acre-feet should be allocated from Eastern Nevada for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low snowpack signals water crisis at Lake Mead</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60677</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Review-Journal: &#8220;Mother Nature is a fickle mistress. One year removed from near-record snow levels that sent 4 trillion gallons of much-needed meltwater into Lake Mead, winter has gotten off to a terrible start in the mountains that feed the Colorado River. Conditions are so dry that water supply forecasters have slashed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column: Addiction to growth has left Southern Nevada Water Authority in financial straits</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60674</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun, this column by J. Patrick Coolican: &#8220;Breaking news! There is no free lunch! OK, this is actually not news to most of you. But that’s the take-away from the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s troubled finances and need to raise water rates to pay its significant obligations. In fiscal year 2005-06, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>600 Nevada flood victims get share of settlement</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60327</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Associated Press: &#8220;About 600 victims of a flood caused by the failure of a century-old irrigation canal in Fernley in 2008 have received their share of a $10 million settlement. The settlement funds distributed last month stemmed from class-action lawsuits against the city of Fernley, Lyon County and the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District board. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nevada&#8217;s water fight &#8212; slow-motion war over a thirsty future</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60078</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60078#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From E&#038;E Publishing: &#8220;Denys Koyle parked an 8-foot bucket on the lot in front of her small motel, here on a lonely stretch of pavement crossing the Utah-Nevada line. A sign on the bucket reads: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Let Las Vegas Destroy Nevada. Stop the Water Pipeline.&#8221; Koyle is an unlikely activist. She&#8217;s quick to point out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geologist: Snow runoff could be cause of quakes at Lake Mead</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59687</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;All that Colorado snow runoff that poured into Lake Mead last spring and summer may have done more than raise the water level. It have have triggered the earth to quake beneath the lake. Lee Allison, Arizona state geologist and director of the state’s geological survey, said he began to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More water for Las Vegas means more resentment in rural areas</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59645</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Stateline: &#8220;For Jason King, Nevada’s state engineer, the final months of 2011 were hardly a breeze. On top of his usual workload, he and his resource-strapped office, which manages parched Nevada’s precious water resources, oversaw six weeks of hearings on a controversial permit application, punctuated by often impassioned testimony from 82 witnesses. But 2012 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Vegas: Sloan Channel issue ‘bugs’ nearby homeowners</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59465</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59465#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;First came the stench. Now it’s the gnats and midges. Water released into the Sloan Channel from the new wastewater treatment plant in North Las Vegas is making life a little more difficult for those who live near the concrete-lined channel. Fungus gnats and chronomid midges, both of which live [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands file comments on Las Vegas water plan</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59100</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59100#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;Allowing Las Vegas to pump millions of gallons of water from two rural counties would be a $15 billion blunder and destroy some of the best parts of Nevada, says one unhappy resident. But Jan Jones, a senior vice president of Caesars Entertainment and former Las Vegas mayor, says permitting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Vegas: To pay for lake intakes, water bills going up again</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58337</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;Next spring, water bills will rise to help pay the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s mounting debt used to fund some $3.3 billion in pumps, pipes and intakes installed over the past several years. The fee, which comes on top of other recent increases, is needed because the old way of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groups filing opposition to Vegas water pipeline</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58062</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58062#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;Conservation groups and others have begun a public comment drive to persuade Nevada&#8217;s top state water official to reject the Southern Nevada Water Authority&#8217;s request to pump groundwater from the eastern part of the state and pipe it to Las Vegas. More than 21,000 comments were sent Tuesday to State [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critics blast Las Vegas pipeline proposal</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57684</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57684#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Deseret News: &#8220;An attorney for the LDS Church called a proposal for tapping ground water in the dry regions of Nevada and pumping it to Las Vegas a disaster with good intentions. &#8220;It&#8217;s the cotton candy of good intentions with nothing good at its core,&#8221; attorney Paul Hermonskie said Friday. &#8220;It does not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Vegas water pipeline project hearing wraps up</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57638</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57638#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;After hearing 82 witnesses and considering more than 10,000 pages of exhibits over 24 days, the state wrapped up its hearing Friday on the application of the Southern Nevada Water Authority to pipe millions of gallons of water from Eastern Nevada to meet the growing population needs of the Las [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Vegas: Even conservationists not worried about water park being a drain</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57583</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57583#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;For those with visions of a cool summer escape, a new water park in Las Vegas has seemed like a mirage in the seven years since Wet ’n Wild drained its last drop of water. Then, with relief in sight, this week’s announcement of construction on an $18 million water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern Nevada Water Authority defends community&#8217;s conservation efforts</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57327</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57327#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Water Efficiency: &#8220;In response to an Oakland, California-based organization’s criticism of the Las Vegas Valley’s ongoing water conservation efforts, an attorney for the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) today questioned a report by the Pacific Institute that criticized Southern Nevada’s efforts to reduce water use—initiatives that have already yielded a 30 percent reduction in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chance of Rain blog on Las Vegas pipeline hearings: “Isn’t it true …”</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57230</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57230#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Chance of Rain blog: &#8220;It was a long day yesterday and watching a lawyer for Las Vegas question a water analyst from a California wasn’t supposed to be part of it, until it was. Seldom are courtroom proceedings in real life better than they are on, say, “The Good Wife.” But for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nevada&#8217;s recovery depends on a reliable water supply, says commentary</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57089</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Reno Gazette-Journal, this commentary by Pat Mulroy: &#8220;Southern Nevada&#8217;s nascent economic recovery &#8212; which is a critical part of the entire state&#8217;s recovery &#8212; is inextricably linked to a reliable water supply. As the agency tasked with securing water for seven out of 10 Nevadans, the Southern Nevada Water Authority works to identify [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Vegas pipeline would upset balance, says commentary</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57022</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun, this commentary by Ed Naranjo, a council member and the administrator of the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation in Utah: &#8220;Pat Mulroy’s article, “Diversity, balance needed for Nevada’s future” published Oct. 9, describes the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s plea for permission to build a massive groundwater pipeline that will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Vegas pipeline plan: Court ruling emboldens water grab opponents</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56745</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Las Vegas&#8217; Channel 8: &#8220;Opponents of a plan to siphon billions of gallons of rural groundwater and pipe it to Las Vegas told the state water engineer Monday there simply isn&#8217;t as much water as the Southern Nevada Water Authority claims. Draining the water could turns parts of Nevada and Utah into a dead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inkstain blog: A bit of history – when US Colorado River water users feared Mexico</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56720</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inkstain blog: &#8220;There’s a tangent in Henry Brean’s Las Vegas Review-Journal story [link available on click-through] about desalination and Las Vegas this morning that provides a reminder of just how far we’ve come in the power structure surrounding the management of the Colorado River in the last century. The main thrust of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Herrenknecht TBM gets ready to drill Lake Mead</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56288</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Engineering News Record (hat tip to the Inkstain blog): &#8220;Southern Nevada&#8217;s newest piece of mega-hardware—a custom, $25-million Herrenknecht tunneling boring machine—makes its long-awaited underground debut later this year. The machine works like a giant mechanical earthworm, gnawing through dirt, rock and muck, forming a protective tunnel that will eventually channel raw Colorado River water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern Nevada Water Authority wraps up at pipeline hearing</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55963</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 14:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;A predicted or perceived water shortage in Southern Nevada will have a devastating effect not only in Las Vegas, but in the entire state, an economic analyst has testified. Jeremy Aguero was the last of 25 witnesses presented by the Southern Nevada Water Authority over three weeks to discuss a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nevada leaders largely silent on pipeline controversy</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55908</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;Last week, the public got a chance to voice its opinions on the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s pipeline project. The state’s elected officials, meanwhile, have for years been largely silent on the proposal to send water from rural Nevada to Las Vegas, trying to find a neutral position on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNWA’s water plan is short-sighted, says commentary</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55784</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun, this commentary by Bob Mrowka, ecologist and conservation advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity: &#8220;The Southern Nevada Water Authority’s proposed water pipeline project is ill-conceived, morally and ethically wrong and unneeded. The pipeline, and especially the ancient groundwater to fill it, would destroy natural ecosystems and human communities far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Vegas pipeline: Will state engineer regard public opinion?</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55782</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Elko (Nevada) Daily Free Press: &#8220;They say politics makes strange bedfellows, and Nevada’s water politics certainly are no exception. Protesters from a wide range of backgrounds — from ranchers to American Indians to the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada — will descend on Carson City early Friday morning to let the state engineer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tug-of-war between urban, rural emerges in Las Vegas pipeline duel</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55658</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Salt Lake Tribune: &#8220;Somebody’s future is going to dry up, dozens of people testified Friday in a water-rights hearing for a Las Vegas water pipeline. Will it be the ranchers, small towns and tribes of western Utah and eastern Nevada who fear groundwater pumping from their valleys? Or will it be the casinos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pat Mulroy: Diversity, balance needed for Nevada’s future</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55660</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pat Mulroy makes her case for the pipeline project in the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;Our community has reached a critical crossroads. From an economic standpoint, it would appear that Southern Nevada is slowly beginning to recover. However, job-creating investment has been slow to materialize. As we have learned over the years through numerous interactions with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Vegas Sun editorial: Water pipeline will be good for both Clark County and the state</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55662</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Las Vegas Sun pens this supportive editorial: &#8220;Last November, the water level in Lake Mead dropped to a place it hadn’t been since 1937 — when the lake was originally being filled. A long drought and population growth in the Southwest had taken a toll: Lake Mead had fallen more than 130 feet over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Launce Rake: The obvious results of a ‘water grab’</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55665</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But wait a minute, says Launce Rake, commentary at the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;What seems obvious to anyone who has spent time in beautiful rural Nevada, and is backed up by volumes of research from federal and academic researchers, is the truth that removing the water that sustains the wildlife of the Great Basin means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public passionately weighs in on Las Vegas plan to pump rural groundwater south</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55602</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Nevada News Bureau: &#8220;Supporters of a plan by the Southern Nevada Water Authority to pump more than 125,00-acre feet of groundwater from rural areas of the state to slake the thirst of urban residents said today the project is critical to keeping the state’s economic engine running. But opponents said the groundwater pumping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utahns to protest water pipeline to Las Vegas</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55454</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55454#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Salt Lake Tribune: &#8220;Utahns worried about a proposal to supply Las Vegas with groundwater piped from the Utah-Nevada line plan to testify and protest against the project this week. The Nevada state engineer is hearing testimony on the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s application for water from Spring Valley and associated watersheds Friday in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern Nevada Water Authority head getting review by county</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55395</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas &  Nevada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;For the first time, Clark County will evaluate the job performance of Pat Mulroy, head of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, which county commissioners oversee. Mulroy has never been formally evaluated since signing an employment contract in 1999. The contract states she should be evaluated throughout the year. Without a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As hearings begin, Water Authority claims Las Vegas pipeline would benefit rural Nevada</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55043</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;Pumping water from Eastern Nevada to Las Vegas will enrich, not destroy, the small rural communities where the water is located, an attorney for the Southern Nevada Water Authority said as hearings got under way on the proposed pipeline project. Opening arguments were presented today on the Water Authority&#8217;s application [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Vegas: Water hearing begins Monday</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55006</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;Opponents label it a “water grab” and say there’s no crisis facing Las Vegas. Supporters maintain the predicted growth of Southern Nevada isn’t being managed and the region’s economy could drop by 10 percent unless more water is imported. The two sides square off 9 a.m., Monday, Sept. 26, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long-awaited Las Vegas water-pipeline decision to follow hearings</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/54757</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/54757#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;Gov. Brian Sandoval is taking a hands-off approach to upcoming hearings on a plan by Las Vegas officials to pump millions of gallons of water to Southern Nevada from rural eastern Nevada. “I will leave it to the administrative process,” said the governor, who added that he’s confident state engineer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Vegas: Want your grass back? Plant it, water authority says; New policy reverses a key water-agency saving program</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/54537</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun: &#8220;The Southern Nevada Water Authority approved a measure Thursday that some say could undermine years of water conservation efforts. In a 6-1 vote, the Water Authority agreed to allow homeowners and businesses to convert desert landscaping back to turf if a property owner is willing to reimburse the agency for [...]]]></description>
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