The Western Environmental Law Center is representing a broad coalition of citizens’ groups, rural governmental entities, and individuals in their fight to keep the Southern Nevada Water Authority from taking all available groundwater from rural eastern Nevada and western Utah, building a massive 200-mile pipeline project, and pumping millions of gallons of water each year to feed Las Vegas’s uncontrolled growth.  WELC is representing the protestants of this plan before the State Engineer of Nevada who has jurisdiction over granting water rights, in Nevada state court where we have brought a due process challenge to the Nevada water rights review process that excludes a large portion of the local water rights holders and the interested public from the decision-making process, and before the BLM, which is making decisions about whether to approve pipeline rights-of-way over federal lands.

Attorneys: Matt Bishop and Matt Kenna