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US Government Approves World’s Largest Solar Project

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October 28, 2010

The Blythe solar plant is the sixth on public lands to get federal approval this month.

Low Water May Halt Hoover Dam’s Power

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September 22, 2010

What happens if Lake Mead drops too low to generate electricity at Hoover Dam?

In Solar Power Lies Path to Reducing Water Use For Energy

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August 31, 2010

California’s latest proposed desert solar power plant could compromise desert habitat.

Major Nevada Pipeline Project in Limbo

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February 4, 2010

Plans for a major freshwater pipeline for the Las Vegas Valley hit a legal roadblock. A ruling from Nevada's Supreme Court last week has threatened the fate of a massive pipeline project once hailed as critical to Las Vegas’ freshwater supply

Nuclear Fallout: Nevada Takes Hard Look at Contaminated Groundwater From Historic Testing Grounds

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November 15, 2009

The Yucca Flat area of the Nevada Test Site is scarred with subsidence craters from underground nuclear testing

[/caption]Decades of nuclear weapons testing has contaminated an estimated 1.6 trillion gallons of groundwater in the Nevada desert, a region where clean water is scarce and getting scarcer.

Water Issues Dividing and Challenging the U.S.

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October 12, 2009

With floods across the Midwest, droughts along the Southwest, and legal skirmishes in the West and South—water issues are dividing the United States and challenging its citizens like never before. As first reported by Circle of Blue in July 2008, increasing competition for diminishing water supplies is driving the United States into an era of water scarcity.

Nevada and Utah: Desert Aquifer Dispute in Snake Valley

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October 12, 2009

Snake Valley, Utah. Image courtesy of the Utah Geological Survery

A highly disputed bill sits on the desk of Utah Governor Gary Herbert that would allow the construction of a 300-mile pipeline to pump 16 billion gallons of groundwater from the Snake Valley aquifer to as many as 120,000 households in the growing desert metropolis of Las Vegas, Nevada.