Updates
March 31, 2012
Reaching five hundred signatures indicates that many people recognize the value of preserving our desert ecosystems instead of relying on destructive infrastructure. I am moved by the thoughtful comments left by those who understand that conservation is a more sustainable path than rural depletion.
Reached 500 supporters
March 30, 2012
November 14, 2011
The momentum surrounding this cause has grown far beyond my initial expectations. It is deeply encouraging to see so many people recognize that responsible conservation is a far more sustainable path than depleting our rural landscapes.
May 30, 2008
Reaching one hundred signatures highlights the quiet gravity of the threat facing our desert valleys. This initial group of people signifies a foundational level of concern for our shared natural landscape.
Reached 100 supporters
May 28, 2008
62 Comments
We need an argument as well as evidences against what is going on.
We need an argument as well as evidences against what is going on.
Why take when they can make? Desalination is cheaper and trading desal water for more from the Colorado river doesn't require a pipeline.
At an estimated cost of 15 billion, this is equal to everyone in the state writing a check to SNWA for $5,000! Please do not share my email.
A recent visit to Great Basin National Park including tour of Lehman Cave confirms there is no surplus of water. Indeed, the Ranger leading the tour remarked about how prolonged drought had depleted groundwater to the extent of virtually eliminating seepage into the cave.
We can't afford another California debacle.
Water conservation is the cheapest and most reliable future source of water for Las Vegas. Drilling over 200 wells to unsustainably "mine" ancient groundwater reserves would be an insane waste of money and devastate the rural communities and wildlife that need that water to survive.
Water conservation is the key for all urban areas. If we simply continue to dig wells in distant aquifers, they will become depleted and the local areas will be devastated. We must do better!
Reduce the demand, dont exploit our land! the earth is not a warehouse for our needs!
Water grab is pennywise and poundfoolish
Real life is not in Las Vegas....it is found in the communities that work within their means and in the delicate balance of nature.
This would destroy my property values & the water I paid for when I purchased my home! My horses, garden, and way of life. I don't waste water, but I don't want it stolen by Las Vegas by greedy developers and politicians!
Water conservation is a better solution!
As a native of White Pine County, I ask that Clark County not be allowed to ruin Northern Nevada by stealing and wasting the water that makes Northern Nevada the beautiful treasure it is.
Remember when LV was a dustbowl? Now they want more than their fair share of everyone else's water! The answer is NO, no more water for you from our DRY state and the other contiguous states. The only thing pretty about LV is its being close to Valley of Fire and Red Rock SP's. The rights on the Colo. R are or nearly depleted. Go buy an ice cube from the vanishing Artic or maybe the Columbia; want a fight, go there and try your antics and Wash. St will bash your brains in! (Tee-Hee)
Enough is a nough
Don't build the Raiders stadium
Raiders stay home
Yet another reason to keep the Oakland Raiders home ☠
Vegas is a great place, but the Raiders need to stay in Oakland. No on Vegas. Stay in Oakland.
We live in a desert. Climate change is rapidly warming our area. Ya'll got enough water already, learn to conserve and use it properly.
The word has to get out before it's too late forever!
thanks
More efficient use of water needs to be taught / adopted and foolish practices need to be abandoned - Las Vegas area judges need to stop the practice of forcing 'shuttered' golf courses to irrigate unused turf to appease a few wealthy neighbors.
Water is finite. There is no room for infinite growth in Nevada, nor this world. We cannot make the same mistakes that California and other states have made in water management. We must find a balance between preserving our natural resources and progressing as a society. The water usage proposed by the SNWA would disrupt that balance.
I strongly oppose any efforts by the Southern Nevada Water Authority to take water from farming, agrarian, and self-sustaining communities to support further unsustainable growth in an over-developed eco-system in Clark County.
As a Las Vegas resident, I strongly oppose the SNWA's attempts to choke rural Nevada for the continued growth of metropolitan areas instead of increased conservation efforts. I'm an outdoor enthusiast and used to enjoy camping and activities in the inland empire of California. That area is now dying or dead due to similar actions by LA.
As a Reno resident of over 10 years and looking to relocate in the near future to North Eastern Nevada, I strongly oppose this project. The potential impact to an area that is so dependent on the availability of water is to great.
Las Vegas is a parasite and it needs to be stopped before it destroys us all!!
Someone needs to remind the powers that be of John Wesley Powell's assessment of population growth along the Colorado river. It should be limited to what the river can sustain. It appears as though Las Vegas is past that point already. This water grab effort needs to stop. It is time to hit the brakes on the uncontrolled growth that is taking place in Las Vegas. The city needs to work within what the river can provide.
Water theft should not be an option. Maybe the Las Vegas Master Plan should be revisited and revised to limit extravagant expansion and implement further water conservation efforts.
Las Vegas needs to stop building and realize that they need to respect that many systems rely on the water, this is the worst idea.
Las Vegas cannot continue to grow unchecked. Subdivisions must not be approved before the water is secured tp service them. Existing customers have been deceived into believing that exponential growth will not impair their access to water or impact their rates. Both are occurring. Southern Nevada must learn to plan and secure water first, and develop only when their resources are secure.
What did we learn from the Owens Valley.
What did we learn from the Owens Valley.
As ground water levels continue to drop all over the west, the last thing the ranchers and farmers of rural eastern Nevada needs is to lose even more of this most precious of natural resources to a metropolis that has grown too big for its desert environs in the first place.
Preserve water culture.
I oppose the water pipeline coming from Elko, White Pine and any other county of the Great Basin down to Vegas. I would rather see a water pipeline constructed from the flood prone areas back East installed across the country to the drought restricted areas of the West before seeing the Great Basin drained of its water.
My family and I just visited the area for the first time and fell in love with the region. It is truly unique and it's management needs to be left to its current stewards. The SNWA is not ignorant to what will happen, they just don't care. Tax revenue keeps the machine running and in order to generate more money, they need more growth, which in turn requires more water. Absolutely shameful!
I do not think the water from northern counties should be piped to Las Vegas NV.
Nevada's landscape, wildlife, only national park, and rural communities would be devastated in order to allow Las Vegas' growth. If its growth occurs the water must come from elsewhere. Perhaps help finance California building desalinization capability.
It is past time to stop the Las Vegas sprawl and its water wasting ways. Keep the rest of Nevada beautiful, stop the water grab.
Please! PLEASE! Save our home and beautiful state!
It's time to stop supporting the unsustainable growth of the human species in places that can't naturally support them in the first place. Overgrowth is not a meaningful excuse to create an ecological crisis, nor to allocate resources to an area that doesn't seem to take the management of their existing resources all that seriously.
A unique place more than deserving protection of its resources and characteristics.
my current water rights are the life line to my family and property. Vegas does not run this state
It is long past time for us to adapt to the resources we have rather than stealing them from our neighbors to enable mindless and unsustainable growth. Schemes like that proposed by the SNWA rely on outdated thinking that runs contrary to longterm survival for all involved at both ends of the chain. This project should not be permitted.
Protect natural resources - water belongs where it naturally occurs.
Good luck. Hope you Remember Racist Joe Biden’s famous quote "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you Ain't Black," translation, If You Don’t Vote for Me, ‘You Ain’t Black’, that said, All Black Americans should wake up and challenge the ill-educated anti-American BLM to explain HOW looting and rioting, arson attacks on private businesses , rampant violence and lawlessness protesting, stomping and burning the U.S.A. flag, vandalizing and toppling Civil War statues and monuments, there by Erasing the History of the Pro-slavery, Spread Hating, and currently the True Racist Democratic Party which was Proudly Known Historically as The Slaveholding Confederate States of America, stop blacks from murdering each other in record numbers every weekend in Democrat-run cities and states ONLY? Why does BLM believe black lives ONLY matter when they are harmed or killed by a white person, especially a white cop and not by black hoodlum? (Think) Where are the multitude of protesters, mourners, and televised funeral services from BLM for the deaths of Black men, women, children, and cops killed by black thugs across America's major cities? The truth is BLM does not care about blacks as more Black Americans are killed by blacks then by cops. Well, the fact is, All Lives Matter (ALM). It is Sad, Insulting, and Degrading that Black Americans Today after all this Years have Forgotten (Think) who the Real Racists have Been and Continue to be, namely, the Democrats.
Mr Ghiglieri, I have read several of your articles and wanted to contact you to "speak" briefly about water rights during a drought. If you would not mind reaching out to me at [email protected], I would appreciate it. I am trying to develop a protocol for discounting dedicated water rights for future development to account for drought and anticipated global climate change. Thank you!
Yeah this cause is Poggers ngl
We cannot continue to deplete resources.
We cannot continue to deplete resources.
As a recent visitor to the Snake, Spring, Antelope, Monitor, and Diamond Valleys I can well attest that there is not enough water to meet existing needs. Northeastern Nevada has no excess capacity to export water. If heat loving people want water then I would kindly suggest that they move to a place where water is more available. Just don't come here to Oregon.
As a recent visitor to the Snake, Spring, Antelope, Monitor, and Diamond Valleys I can well attest that there is not enough water to meet existing needs. Northeastern Nevada has no excess capacity to export water. If heat loving people want water then I would kindly suggest that they move to a place where water is more available. Just don't come here to Oregon.
Before pumping any ground water, mandate severe water conservation in Las Vegas Valley. Also deny permits for growth in the Valley. Remove large water users (golf courses for example). Rehabilitate land back to Native landscape. Also mandate the removal of turf lawns. Charge large water users more for water. Slightly increase all water fees, utilizing a low base rate and then higher fee tiers as water consumption increases.
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Updates
March 31, 2012
Reaching five hundred signatures indicates that many people recognize the value of preserving our desert ecosystems instead of relying on destructive infrastructure. I am moved by the thoughtful comments left by those who understand that conservation is a more sustainable path than rural depletion.
Reached 500 supporters
March 30, 2012
November 14, 2011
The momentum surrounding this cause has grown far beyond my initial expectations. It is deeply encouraging to see so many people recognize that responsible conservation is a far more sustainable path than depleting our rural landscapes.
May 30, 2008
Reaching one hundred signatures highlights the quiet gravity of the threat facing our desert valleys. This initial group of people signifies a foundational level of concern for our shared natural landscape.
Reached 100 supporters
May 28, 2008
62 Comments
If you Google my name you will find that my Uncle Glen was involved in many of the early water studies in Nevada in the early Sixties. I was very close to my Uncle Glen and I feel he would say that this decision to mine water from the Great Basin so as to ensure that people in Southern Nevada do not have to conserve, is Not Wise!
We need an argument as well as evidences against what is going on.
We need an argument as well as evidences against what is going on.
Why take when they can make? Desalination is cheaper and trading desal water for more from the Colorado river doesn't require a pipeline.
At an estimated cost of 15 billion, this is equal to everyone in the state writing a check to SNWA for $5,000! Please do not share my email.
A recent visit to Great Basin National Park including tour of Lehman Cave confirms there is no surplus of water. Indeed, the Ranger leading the tour remarked about how prolonged drought had depleted groundwater to the extent of virtually eliminating seepage into the cave.
We can't afford another California debacle.
Water conservation is the cheapest and most reliable future source of water for Las Vegas. Drilling over 200 wells to unsustainably "mine" ancient groundwater reserves would be an insane waste of money and devastate the rural communities and wildlife that need that water to survive.
Water conservation is the key for all urban areas. If we simply continue to dig wells in distant aquifers, they will become depleted and the local areas will be devastated. We must do better!
Reduce the demand, dont exploit our land! the earth is not a warehouse for our needs!
Water grab is pennywise and poundfoolish
Real life is not in Las Vegas....it is found in the communities that work within their means and in the delicate balance of nature.
This would destroy my property values & the water I paid for when I purchased my home! My horses, garden, and way of life. I don't waste water, but I don't want it stolen by Las Vegas by greedy developers and politicians!
Water conservation is a better solution!
As a native of White Pine County, I ask that Clark County not be allowed to ruin Northern Nevada by stealing and wasting the water that makes Northern Nevada the beautiful treasure it is.
Remember when LV was a dustbowl? Now they want more than their fair share of everyone else's water! The answer is NO, no more water for you from our DRY state and the other contiguous states. The only thing pretty about LV is its being close to Valley of Fire and Red Rock SP's. The rights on the Colo. R are or nearly depleted. Go buy an ice cube from the vanishing Artic or maybe the Columbia; want a fight, go there and try your antics and Wash. St will bash your brains in! (Tee-Hee)
Enough is a nough
Don't build the Raiders stadium
Raiders stay home
Yet another reason to keep the Oakland Raiders home ☠
Vegas is a great place, but the Raiders need to stay in Oakland. No on Vegas. Stay in Oakland.
We live in a desert. Climate change is rapidly warming our area. Ya'll got enough water already, learn to conserve and use it properly.
The word has to get out before it's too late forever!
thanks
More efficient use of water needs to be taught / adopted and foolish practices need to be abandoned - Las Vegas area judges need to stop the practice of forcing 'shuttered' golf courses to irrigate unused turf to appease a few wealthy neighbors.
Water is finite. There is no room for infinite growth in Nevada, nor this world. We cannot make the same mistakes that California and other states have made in water management. We must find a balance between preserving our natural resources and progressing as a society. The water usage proposed by the SNWA would disrupt that balance.
I strongly oppose any efforts by the Southern Nevada Water Authority to take water from farming, agrarian, and self-sustaining communities to support further unsustainable growth in an over-developed eco-system in Clark County.
As a Las Vegas resident, I strongly oppose the SNWA's attempts to choke rural Nevada for the continued growth of metropolitan areas instead of increased conservation efforts. I'm an outdoor enthusiast and used to enjoy camping and activities in the inland empire of California. That area is now dying or dead due to similar actions by LA.
As a Reno resident of over 10 years and looking to relocate in the near future to North Eastern Nevada, I strongly oppose this project. The potential impact to an area that is so dependent on the availability of water is to great.
Las Vegas is a parasite and it needs to be stopped before it destroys us all!!
Someone needs to remind the powers that be of John Wesley Powell's assessment of population growth along the Colorado river. It should be limited to what the river can sustain. It appears as though Las Vegas is past that point already. This water grab effort needs to stop. It is time to hit the brakes on the uncontrolled growth that is taking place in Las Vegas. The city needs to work within what the river can provide.
Water theft should not be an option. Maybe the Las Vegas Master Plan should be revisited and revised to limit extravagant expansion and implement further water conservation efforts.
Las Vegas needs to stop building and realize that they need to respect that many systems rely on the water, this is the worst idea.
Las Vegas cannot continue to grow unchecked. Subdivisions must not be approved before the water is secured tp service them. Existing customers have been deceived into believing that exponential growth will not impair their access to water or impact their rates. Both are occurring. Southern Nevada must learn to plan and secure water first, and develop only when their resources are secure.
What did we learn from the Owens Valley.
What did we learn from the Owens Valley.
As ground water levels continue to drop all over the west, the last thing the ranchers and farmers of rural eastern Nevada needs is to lose even more of this most precious of natural resources to a metropolis that has grown too big for its desert environs in the first place.
Preserve water culture.
I oppose the water pipeline coming from Elko, White Pine and any other county of the Great Basin down to Vegas. I would rather see a water pipeline constructed from the flood prone areas back East installed across the country to the drought restricted areas of the West before seeing the Great Basin drained of its water.
My family and I just visited the area for the first time and fell in love with the region. It is truly unique and it's management needs to be left to its current stewards. The SNWA is not ignorant to what will happen, they just don't care. Tax revenue keeps the machine running and in order to generate more money, they need more growth, which in turn requires more water. Absolutely shameful!
I do not think the water from northern counties should be piped to Las Vegas NV.
Nevada's landscape, wildlife, only national park, and rural communities would be devastated in order to allow Las Vegas' growth. If its growth occurs the water must come from elsewhere. Perhaps help finance California building desalinization capability.
It is past time to stop the Las Vegas sprawl and its water wasting ways. Keep the rest of Nevada beautiful, stop the water grab.
Please! PLEASE! Save our home and beautiful state!
It's time to stop supporting the unsustainable growth of the human species in places that can't naturally support them in the first place. Overgrowth is not a meaningful excuse to create an ecological crisis, nor to allocate resources to an area that doesn't seem to take the management of their existing resources all that seriously.
A unique place more than deserving protection of its resources and characteristics.
my current water rights are the life line to my family and property. Vegas does not run this state
It is long past time for us to adapt to the resources we have rather than stealing them from our neighbors to enable mindless and unsustainable growth. Schemes like that proposed by the SNWA rely on outdated thinking that runs contrary to longterm survival for all involved at both ends of the chain. This project should not be permitted.
Protect natural resources - water belongs where it naturally occurs.
Good luck. Hope you Remember Racist Joe Biden’s famous quote "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you Ain't Black," translation, If You Don’t Vote for Me, ‘You Ain’t Black’, that said, All Black Americans should wake up and challenge the ill-educated anti-American BLM to explain HOW looting and rioting, arson attacks on private businesses , rampant violence and lawlessness protesting, stomping and burning the U.S.A. flag, vandalizing and toppling Civil War statues and monuments, there by Erasing the History of the Pro-slavery, Spread Hating, and currently the True Racist Democratic Party which was Proudly Known Historically as The Slaveholding Confederate States of America, stop blacks from murdering each other in record numbers every weekend in Democrat-run cities and states ONLY? Why does BLM believe black lives ONLY matter when they are harmed or killed by a white person, especially a white cop and not by black hoodlum? (Think) Where are the multitude of protesters, mourners, and televised funeral services from BLM for the deaths of Black men, women, children, and cops killed by black thugs across America's major cities? The truth is BLM does not care about blacks as more Black Americans are killed by blacks then by cops. Well, the fact is, All Lives Matter (ALM). It is Sad, Insulting, and Degrading that Black Americans Today after all this Years have Forgotten (Think) who the Real Racists have Been and Continue to be, namely, the Democrats.
Mr Ghiglieri, I have read several of your articles and wanted to contact you to "speak" briefly about water rights during a drought. If you would not mind reaching out to me at [email protected], I would appreciate it. I am trying to develop a protocol for discounting dedicated water rights for future development to account for drought and anticipated global climate change. Thank you!
Yeah this cause is Poggers ngl
We cannot continue to deplete resources.
We cannot continue to deplete resources.
As a recent visitor to the Snake, Spring, Antelope, Monitor, and Diamond Valleys I can well attest that there is not enough water to meet existing needs. Northeastern Nevada has no excess capacity to export water. If heat loving people want water then I would kindly suggest that they move to a place where water is more available. Just don't come here to Oregon.
As a recent visitor to the Snake, Spring, Antelope, Monitor, and Diamond Valleys I can well attest that there is not enough water to meet existing needs. Northeastern Nevada has no excess capacity to export water. If heat loving people want water then I would kindly suggest that they move to a place where water is more available. Just don't come here to Oregon.
Before pumping any ground water, mandate severe water conservation in Las Vegas Valley. Also deny permits for growth in the Valley. Remove large water users (golf courses for example). Rehabilitate land back to Native landscape. Also mandate the removal of turf lawns. Charge large water users more for water. Slightly increase all water fees, utilizing a low base rate and then higher fee tiers as water consumption increases.
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If you Google my name you will find that my Uncle Glen was involved in many of the early water studies in Nevada in the early Sixties. I was very close to my Uncle Glen and I feel he would say that this decision to mine water from the Great Basin so as to ensure that people in Southern Nevada do not have to conserve, is Not Wise!