Lake Mead National Recreation Area announced more closures to park operations on Sunday, March 22, in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
To know when to water succulents, you must learn how to tell when hydrostatic pressure is low. Your clues are both tactile and visual. (Mat Luschek / Review-Journal)
The Southern Nevada Water Authority wants to take billions of gallons of water that doesn’t exist from Eastern Nevada via a pipeline that would cost ratepayers $15 billion. Doing so would devastate the wildlife and people who live there. That’s according to Kyle Roerink, executive director of the Great Basin Water Network, which opposes the pipeline.
National Park Service releases new plans to maintain access to the water as Lake Mead continues to shrink.
This year the park will be celebrating the Northern Flicker. The program is designed to teach about that bird, and encourage people to visit the Wetlands and walk the same distance the bird migrates each year.
Trout Canyon home owner Donna Lamm talks about the 2013 Carpenter 1 fire and the difficulties property owners in the canyon have faced trying to resolve the loss of their water system over 5 years ago.
Twenty five families were evicted from their apartments for not paying their rent, building code violations and due to a lack of water,
Almost half an inch of rain fell over the Las Vegas Valley overnight, according to the National Weather Service. The valley’s record-breaking 116-day dry streak ended Monday, with 0.14 inches of rain before midnight. The valley saw another 0.35 inches of rain between midnight and 6 a.m. Tuesday, the weather service said.
Nevada’s top water regulator puts a moratorium on domestic wells in Pahrump, where the water table has been in decline since the 1950s.
Ranch and resource manager Bernard Petersen and director of resources for the Southern Nevada Water Authority Zane Marshall discuss the water project at Great Basin Ranch in Spring Valley, Monday, Aug. 7, 2017. (Elizabeth Brumley/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Now that the tunnel is connected to the intake structure below the surface of Lake Mead, engineers will put in a temporary cap so they can remove the tunneling machine and clear the way for the water.