CARSON CITY, Nev. – The Nevada State Engineer, Jason King, announced today additional locations for public comment during the upcoming Southern Nevada Water Authority water-right hearing. The hearing is scheduled for multiple weeks beginning September 26, 2011. Public comment is scheduled for October 7, 2011 at 8 a.m. and will be video cast from several [...]

Landmark video explains complicated issue in simple terms (Submitted news) — The  Truckee Meadows Water Authority (TMWA) and KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting present “Taming the Turbulent Waters,” a half-hour documentary celebrating the historic signing of the Truckee River Operating Agreement (TROA), which occurred on Sept. 6, 2008. The next airing is Nov. 23 at [...]

Ruling grants Southern Nevada Water Authority 18,755 acre-feet annually of 34,752 acre-feet requested CARSON CITY, Nev — Nevada’s State Engineer Tracy Taylor released his ruling today on the Cave Valley, Dry Lake Valley and Delamar Valley water right applications filed by the Las Vegas Valley Water District. The applications are now held by the Southern [...]

CARSON CITY, Nev.–The Nevada Supreme Court has unanimously upheld Carson City’s 1885 priority to water rights in Ash Canyon. When Carson ran into regulatory troubles eight years ago, the state temporarily canceled the city’s permit to use the water. The city owns 60 percent of the water rights to the canyon, but because in many [...]

CARSON CITY, Nev.–The state water engineer has rejected the move by the Pyramid Paiute Tribe to block 19 separate applications to move or change water rights in Douglas County. Most of the changes were designed to enable municipal and commercial development in the county. In addition to the county and area general improvement districts, the [...]

FALLON, Nev.–Las Vegas isn’t the only area seeking to pipe groundwater from Nevada’s hinterlands – Lyon County developers are hoping to do the same. Three development companies that want to move water via a pipeline from the Black Rock Desert region in Washoe and Pershing counties into Lyon and Storey counties will ask the Lyon [...]

FALLON, Nev.–Ruling No. 5759 by Nevada state engineer Tracy Taylor is, in the opinion of many waterfowl enthusiasts, a landmark decision. That’s because it really is. In a nutshell, Taylor’s ruling, dated Aug. 14, will ultimately increase the amount of water — in perpetuity — for waterfowl and other wildlife that live and depend on [...]

RENO, Nev.–There is nothing more precious in Northern Nevada than water, so it is good to see that the Nevada state engineer is going to be tough on applications to make use of the area’s limited resource. State Engineer Tracy Taylor last week rejected a proposal to pump water from a valley near Pyramid Lake [...]