Many rural Nevada communities are opposed to the idea of pumping groundwater from outlying regions of the state to serve Las Vegas. (Ken Lund/Flickr)
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Members of Nevada’s Native American communities are planning to run nearly 300 miles next week to call for more sustainable water management in the state.
The Nevada state engineer denied a permit in August for a controversial pipeline plan decades in the making, to pump groundwater hundreds of miles from eastern Nevada to Las Vegas. The Southern Nevada Water Authority says it will appeal the decision.
Opponents of the plan include conservation groups and Native American tribes, who fear the pumping project would dry up fragile ecosystems. Beverly Harry, an organizer of the Water Protectors Sacred Water Run, says runners’ first goal is to show their opposition to the pipeline.
“The second thing is to evaluate exactly what we need to do to protect waters of Nevada, and what are we going to do to address that? Because that’s within the power of all of the state officials,” says Harry.
About a dozen people from different indigenous communities are planning a relay-style run starting Monday in Snake Valley. They’ll roughly […]
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