The voracious Southern Nevada Water Authority has received permission from the Nevada State Engineer to export water from White Pine County,in the northern part of the state. The water will flow through hundreds of miles of yet-to-be-built pipelines that will traverse White Pine and Lincoln counties and bring critically-needed swimming-pool, casino-fountain, and golf course-irrigation water to Las Vegas.
The water pipelines will run some 450 miles along public land on a free right-of-way secured in legislation by Nevada Senator Harry Reid in 2004.
Some White Pine residents are unhappy about the incipient sucking dry of their county. Reid tried to buy off local politicians last year with yet another bill that put 45,000 acres of public land up for sale--that's red meat to many in the rural West.
-Eskarne
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