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Posted: 2:32 PM Feb 3, 2012
Vegas Asks State for More Water Rights
With a crucial water rights decision already pending, the Southern Nevada Water Authority is asking the state to let it increase by almost 80 percent the amount of groundwater it can draw from rural areas north of Las Vegas.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - With a crucial water rights decision already
pending, the Southern Nevada Water Authority is asking the state to
let it increase by almost 80 percent the amount of groundwater it
can draw from rural areas north of Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that documents filed with State Engineer Jason King propose eventually siphoning up to 105,000 acre-feet of groundwater a year from four valleys in Lincoln and White Pine counties.
That would be about 46,000 acre-feet more than the authority
received from King's predecessor in separate rulings in 2007 and
2008.
Those decisions were later struck down by the Nevada Supreme
Court, leading to lengthy water rights hearings last year in Carson
City.
Opponents argue the SNWA proposal would drain the basins and
damage the environment.
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