Nevada groundwater rights case reaches the state’s highest court
The Nevada Supreme Court is hearing a complex case over groundwater rights involving a planned development, potentially shaping the state's future water management.
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A Texas judge allowed El Paso Water's lawsuit against New Mexico environment authorities to proceed, contesting a $1.2m fine for a 2021 sewage spill into the Rio Grande. The case questions the...
NV tribe sues feds over water rights, failure to protect endangered fish
The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe has sued the US government, claiming two decades of water mismanagement has threatened local fish species and broken a 1990 settlement to preserve water for tribal use....
The proposed consent decree in the long-running dispute over rights in the 1938 Rio Grande Compact has been released.
An Arizona court denied a motion to stay filed by Rio Verde Foothills, allowing the nearby City of Scottsdale to continue its water shutoff to the unincorporated development. There are other...
Even with above-average snowpack in parts of the southwest, some upper basin states in the Colorado River system are gearing up for a fight over supply.