Solution notes #1: Buying back groundwater rights

Nevada launched a pilot program, and so far there is demand.

Hello, and welcome to Western Water Notes.

Back in Reno after a short trip last week to the Nevada Water Resources Association annual conference in Las Vegas. I was part of a panel focusing on the very issue I wrote about in my last edition: Managing surface and ground water when science shows the two are connected.

I’ll be writing more about that, the N…