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Carson Water Subconservancy District – Water Connects Us All

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The Carson Water Subconservancy District has launched their second video in their, I am Carson River Watershed Campaign series, titled “Water Connects Us All” click the link below to watch: http://iamcarsonriver.org/ For those of us in northern Nevada, the Carson River plays an important part in our communities by supporting our watershed’s environment, economy, and quality of […]

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Idaho Legislation Seeks to Classify Pivot Corners

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2021 Idaho legislation seeks to classify irrigation pivot corners for taxation.  House Bill 252 proposes additional language to Idaho Code, Title 63. This language would ensure county assessors classify pivot corners as agricultural land.  Pivot corners are the parts of a square parcel that a center-pivot irrigation system misses.  Idaho law consideres land “farmland” and

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Idaho Senate Introduced Ten Water Bills

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The Idaho Senate introduced ten water related bills this legislative session in addition to the twelve the House introduced.  Like many of the House bills, some of the water related Senate bills already passed both houses.  Others are in various stages of committee or legislative review.  The Senate bills considered this legislative session are briefly

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Nevada State Engineer Seeks Water Conservation Programs

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            Will Nevada establish water conservation programs? The Nevada Division of Water Resources, Office of the State Engineer (“NDWR”) under the direction of Acting State Engineer Adam Sullivan distributed two draft bills to various lobbying entities.  One seeks to establish a water bank system while the other considers the creation

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Nevada Assembly Considers Water Related Bills

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The Nevada Assembly Committee on Natural Resources (“Committee”) is considering a handful of water related bills in the upcoming 2021 legislative session. While we are continually receiving notice of new proposed bills, we wanted to provide a brief summary on the first few we reviewed.  Assembly Bills (“AB”) 5, 6, and 15 were prefiled for

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California’s Water Futures Trading

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Trading Water as a Commodity Unappropriated water has long been considered a public resource. It is subject to private ownership rights and development, to be sure. But the law generally treats water differently compared to commodities like consumer goods or other natural resources like lumber. The UN recognized water’s essential role in the public commons

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Nevada Water Legislation Workshops are Coming Up!

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  Nevada Division of Water Resources (“NDWR”) has drafted proposed water related regulations and the public is encouraged to get involved by attending the upcoming workshops. The draft regulations concerning water use are R169-20 (concerning extensions of time) and R170-20 (concerning Water Right Surveyor licenses). R169-20 This draft regulation proposes, among other things, to include

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NDWR

NDWR Extension on Comments and Testimony on Proposed Orders

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The Nevada Division of Water Resources (NDWR) gave notice to extend the deadline for submitting written comment and testimony on Proposed Orders to Designate Hydrographic Basins related to the hearings held October 12- October 26, 2020. Information on the hearings is available at: http://water.nv.gov/hearings.aspx. December 1, 2020 is the new deadline for written testimony, noting

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Survey of SOTWI

Survey by AWWA Details Challenges Facing the Water Industry

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The State of the Water Industry Survey In the June 2020 issue of Opflow, the American Water Works Association published a survey of 3,351 water industry professionals. The State of the Water Industry (SOTWI) survey identifies challenges to the water industry and seeks to understand their causes. Several issues regarding water resource management made the

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Pore Spaces

Update: Is an Aquifer’s Pore Space Public or Private Property?

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In a previous blog, we looked into who owns an aquifer: does it belong to private individuals or the public? Under the ad coelum doctrine, the surface owner holds the ground itself – rocks, dirt, and the like – as private property, owned all the way down to the Earth’s core. On the other hand,

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NDWR Notices Hearings on Proposed Orders for Hydrographic Basins

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The Nevada Division of Water Resources (NDWR) posted Notices for Hearings for Proposed Orders for hydrographic basins within numerous Nevada Counties. These include: Churchill, Clark, Elko, Esmeralda, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Pershing, Washoe, and White Pine Counties.  NDWR scheduled the hears for October 12, 2020 through October 26, 2020.  Information on the

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