Comments about ‘Utah, Nevada negotiators close to a draft agreement on dividing Snake Valley water’

Don't feed the anomaly in the desert with our water. Fight it!
Where is Tim Dechristopher when you need him?

I would suggest Las Vegas ought to show it's responsibly using the water it already has before it gets more. Las Vegas can do far more in water conservation efforts and ought to be required to do so. Otherwise, we continue to reward bad behavior, and what do they do when there's no more water to steal?

The Wasatch Front will be covered in West Desert dust within years of pumping. The sky will be darkened by dust...watch out! We'll all be moving to Las Vegas by that point ;-)

That is always the attitude of posters on any issue they want to be against. Check out the las vegas valley water district web site and specifically the conservation link before accusing LV about what to do about water conservation without knowing the facts like KLD represents. Do some other research and find out how much water has been conserved by the efforts that have been made. If tapping this water surce is good or not is one thing, I don't know, but a dialogue of truth would be refreshing. Yes, I am in Las Vegas and I am told on what days and hours of the day I can water what little lawn I have left and that will be gone soon like so many of my neighbors lawns who have responded to the conservation efforts.

Nevada actually does much to promote water conservation. You just don't see it on the strip. Utah, on the other hand, has miles to go to catch up with water conservation policies.

I'm certainly against the water transfer. This can only end poorly. The high desert has no water to spare. Anyone who has every lived out there can tell you that. I am tired of greedy, Vegas developers running over everyone else in the state just for buck. Growth and development in the Las Vegas valley is NOT sustainable. Wake up people!

It's land in Nevada. What part of "states rights" don't you understand? It's a free market. Las Vegas is willing to pay more for the water.

Until I drive down the street in UT and don't see miles upon miles of people watering grass, street gutters filled with water, people leaving the hose running while washing cars I can have little respect for anyone's position about stopping the highly conserved and regulated nevadan from using the water in their own state.

The water of Snake Valley belongs to all the living things that currently depend upon it: the plant and animal communities of the ecosystems above it, the people whose lives and livelihoods who currently depend upon it. The water rights have already been spoken for, by the birds and the deer and the elk and pronghorns and mountain lions, the frogs and fish and and snakes, the greasewood and sagebrush, the cottonwoods and bristlecones and junipers. Las Vegas has no right to steal THEIR water. The springs themselves have the right to continue to flow, as do the creeks. There are no water rights available for sale at any price. Those who take from this rare and beautiful land, this Cathedral of Sky and Sage, are thieves and murderers.