Description
Water Politics in Northern Nevada examines the Newlands Project, its unintended consequences, and decades of litigation over the abatement of these problems and fair allocation of water. Negotiations and federal legislation brought about the Truckee River Operating Agreement in 2008. This revised edition brings the reader up-to-the-minute at the implementation of the agreement, including ongoing efforts to preserve and fortify Pyramid Lake. The second one edition now also features a discussion of the Walker River basin, following an enormous project undertaken to address concerns about the health and viability of Walker Lake. The approaches taken to save these two desert treasures, Pyramid Lake and Walker Lake, are offered as models for resolving similar water-resource conflicts in the West.
Leah J. Wilds’s study is the most important reading for students and scholars of water politics and environmental issues, not just in Nevada but during the western United States.