Desert Wars: Water and the West
Our future is measured by the drop.Watch Desert Wars September 25, 2006 at 8 pm on KUED Channel 7  

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These news stories are compiled from Google News by searching for the keywords: "las vegas aquifer." Please ignore any stories that don't pertain to this issue.

Draining groundwater not the answer
Deseret News
Subsidence is already prevalent throughout the southwest (including in Las Vegas), exceeding 30 feet in parts of California. ...
Meetings to detail Snake Valley wellsDeseret News

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Nevada hold 'em
Salt Lake Tribune
Las Vegas, which is powerful thirsty, covets its neighbors' water. It yearns to pump huge gulps of ground water from beneath rural basins to the north and ...


Water Board weighing costs to treat well
Desert Valley Times
A $16951 expenditure for transfer to Las Vegas and subsequent repair cost estimate of an emergency generator also is included in the consent agenda. ...

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Judge tosses roadblock into Snake Valley deal
Deseret News
Although the agreement comes with strict environmental protections, ranchers, farmers and other residents of Snake Valley say any pumping of the aquifer ...

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Did Utah blink in Snake Valley talks?
Salt Lake Tribune
Many critics have denounced the agreement as a giveaway to Las Vegas at the expense of an aquifer that can maintain equilibrium only with its current water ...

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Vegas water officials approve funds to make snow
Tahoe Daily Tribune
... from Las Vegas taps, because runoff from the targeted mountain ranges feeds a huge groundwater aquifer stretching as far south as Lincoln County, ...

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www.standoutstocks.com: Stocks That Stand Out For Nov. 2nd, 2009 Are BHWX ...
Trading Markets (press release)
He stressed that the new Las Vegas laboratory substantially increases the revenue potential for Cord Blood America. Cord Blood America (OTC Bulletin Board: ...


Vegas water officials approve funds to make snow
San Francisco Chronicle
Las Vegas water officials hope to wring a little extra water from the sky this winter by reviving a cloud-seeding program that appeared doomed by state ...

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Ephraim lawmaker will resign to take new job
Salt Lake Tribune
... efforts to protect the Snake Valley aquifer, water that straddles the Utah-Nevada border and is attracting great interest for future Las Vegas needs. ...

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November 2009 Geology and GSA Today highlights
EurekAlert (press release)
Sean R. Mulcahy et al., Dept. of Geoscience, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010, USA. Pages 987-990. Lawsonite is a critical index ...

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