Nevada 3-day drought summit starts Monday
By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal
CARSON CITY — Water, the lack of it and how the driest state in the nation can best stretch every last drop will be the focus of a three-day drought summit that convenes Monday in Carson City.
It’s the penultimate event before a panel convened by Gov. Brian Sandoval meets Sept. 28 to narrow down the voluminous testimony gathered over the past several months and identify priorities and recommendations to be included in a report due Nov. 1.
Sandoval, a second-term Republican, established the Nevada Drought Forum in April. Speaking at the time on a dusty, dried-up lakebed in Washoe Valley just north of the capital city, the governor said the goal is to develop best practices for water use and conservation.
Why does Nevada only get a three day drought when ours lasts for years? Jesus must like Nevada. All them good people in Vegas and Reno, shootin’ little kids in the head….guess their trying to catch up with the enlightened South.
Interesting to note in the context of so many mixed messages – ‘we have a drought’, but ‘we have enough to provide CA… belies the ongoing misinformation in Nevada.
I was at a meeting in the Legislature a few years ago, which in an ‘afterwards” conversation with the head of Nevada’s Water Resources Division (an engineer) – stated that Nevada has not done a water survey (inventory) since the late ’60’s, so it would seem that that would be the first question to ask/answer. . .as no reasonable (or credible) conclusion can be reached in this summit, absent knowing exactly what you’re working with. . .is still in question.
“Chamber” types want to believe that development is now robust, so various reports that state how much water they have to work with are beginning to be distorted, skewered in a direction of “enough”, when ongoing discussions over a number of years involving the states of Nevada-Utah-Arizona-CA concerning sufficient water seem to be in direct conflict with the tenor of information now coming out. . .Let’s hope no one succumbs to the political correctness Nevada always tries for in political divisions, as water is not really subject to political manipulations, even as they’ll try. . .
The lapse in a Nevada water inventory was due to conflicting ideas between the North/South uses, which probably also still goes on. . .