Thanks to George Knapp over at channel 8, who last week left a comment on the Beers blog reminding everyone about his hour-long special on Nevada water. It airs Sunday afternoon. Set your TIVOs.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority is one of the wealthiest government agencies in Nevada. For its last fiscal year, it increased […]
I found an interesting website that graphs the water elevations at Lakes Mead, Mojave and Havasu.
While Lake Mead has big swings, Lakes Mojave and Havasu stay the same.
The missing piece is Lake Powell - the website author says he can’t find the raw data to make the same kind of dynamic chart as he has […]
The Colorado River snowpack is above average, and it’s just the middle of February.
Nevertheless, some researchers at the Scripps Oceanography operation north of San Diego published a paper this week speculating that Lake Mead could run dry within a decade.
A Review Journal editorial splashed some cold water on our faces the next day:
these doomsday predictions […]
The Southern Nevada Water Authority seems hell-bent on the senseless, wickedly expensive pipeline way up to northern Nevada as the solution to Clark County’s demand for more water. Quietly, the government agency has doubled its pipeline cost estimate, to around five billion. This is well in advance of actually starting it, when we can expect […]
Nevada has passed up an opportunity to increase our water allocation from the Colorado River. The Southern Nevada Water Authority made the agreement - one that will still require a ruinous pipeline to Northern Nevada.
In the Review Journal, Pat Mulroy was quoted:
“It’s hugely important for Nevada,” said water authority General Manager Pat Mulroy. “It gives […]
Here’s an idea for increasing affordable housing in Las Vegas: repeal the law requiring new mobile home parks to pay $5,000 per unit “water tax.” Check out this memo from the Legislative Counsel Bureau’s Scott Young…
Real estate people tell me that there hasn’t been a new mobile home park built in Las Vegas since the […]
Last week, I got to emcee Fred Thompson’s public appearance at Stoney’s.
Channel 10 (one of a handful of government TV stations in Las Vegas) asked me some questions prior to the candidate appearing. As Beers’ Blog readers already know, I believe the presidential candidate - of either party - who aggressively promises to change federal […]
