Nevada state engineer Jason King cleared the Southern Nevada Water Authority to draw 83,988 acre-ft of water annually from four valleys in rural White Pine and Lincoln counties in northeast Nevada, advancing toward the adoption of a proposed groundwater pipeline network that is designed to slake Las Vegas' growing thirst.
"This is another step in a permitting process that will help provide a greater degree of certainty for our long-term water supply," says John Entsminger, SNWA's senior deputy general manager, in a statement.