Las Vegas • Water officials aren’t giving up a nearly 30-year effort to get state approval to pump groundwater from arid valleys just west of the Utah state line and pipe it to faucets, fountains and fairways in Las Vegas.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority board decided Thursday to appeal last month’s decision by Nevada’s top state water official to deny the agency key groundwater use rights in parts of Lincoln and White Pine counties.
In a statement ahead of the unanimous vote, authority officials called the pump-and-pipeline plan a long-term water supply option aimed at cutting Las Vegas' reliance on drought-stricken Lake Mead and the Colorado River.