The park service has extended the deadline for comments on various proposals for how to manage and maintain launch ramps for motorized boaters at Lake Mead.
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The water authority on Tuesday outlined how it thinks the Colorado River basin states and the federal government can drastically cut back on water use along the dwindling Colorado next year.
Federal officials underscored the need for urgent action to deal with ongoing drought along the Colorado River at a water users conference in Las Vegas on Friday.
Southern Nevada Water Authority General Manager John Entsminger said California and Arizona are going to have to shoulder the brunt of the unprecedented cuts the federal government says are needed next year.
“The common cause that we have to address is climate change induced lower flows,” commission Chair Anne Castle said. “That’s what we have to work on together. It’s not an enemy that we can defeat. It’s one that we have to live with.”
Things have only gotten worse along the river since Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton asked the Western states to come up with conservation plan, and that decline shows no signs of slowing down.
Nearly 30 municipalities in the Southwest have signed on to an agreement to reduce water use along the Colorado River, following Las Vegas, which has led the way on conservation efforts for years.
Republican Joe Lombardo will become Nevada’s next governor, making the leap from county sheriff to the state’s top executive office after unseating first-term Democrat Gov. Steve Sisolak by a razor-thin margin.
Democratic Reps. Dina Titus, Susie Lee and Steven Horsford declared victory Thursday in their bids for re-election, even as mail ballots continued to be counted around the state.
Clark County officials still need to count nearly 15,000 mail-in ballots that were received Monday and Tuesday, county Registrar of Voters Joe Gloria said Wednesday.
The Nevada secretary of state’s office has again rejected a proposal by Nye County to hand-count ballots before Election Day on Tuesday, saying the plan still has significant risks.
Democrats have a statewide lead of about 9,200 votes in mail-in ballots and in-person early voting, according to secretary of state figures.
The Interior Department is considering revising rules to address the drought, including possibly reducing water released from dams on Lake Mead and Lake Powell.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., swung through Nevada on Friday to stump for vulnerable Democrats in hopes of boosting turnout among younger voters as the Silver State wrapped up its first week of early voting.
The Desert Research Institute study showed higher levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in 22 percent of rural wells than is considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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