HB 297 would create a new water agency to advance climate change denial, Lake Powell Pipeline, and backroom dealmaking. It’s being rushed through both chambers at the Utah Capitol, at the behest of water lobbyists eager to receive billions in tax payer dollars.
Read MoreUtah’s largest new water diversion in Colorado River Basin ignites a modern water war, results in veiled threat of litigation by other states. In a stunning letter to the Secretary of Interior, a coalition of state water agencies, large water suppliers, and Governors’ representatives of Nevada, Arizona, California, Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico are asking that Utah’s controversial Lake Powell Pipeline be placed on hold.
Read MoreThe Division of Water Resources and Washington County Water District are continuing to avoid transparency about the costs of the Lake Powell Pipeline in a recent press release. The Division claims the project costs just $1.4 billion, but provides no evidence to support this claim.
Read MoreA group of nonprofits and businesses is worried that a state water agency is intentionally withholding cost estimates from Utahns because of public criticism of cutting public services to make way for Pipeline spending.
Read MoreThe Utah Rivers Council submitted a 60 page protest against the water rights application for the proposed Lake Powell Pipeline. Our protest asks the State Engineer to reject the water rights application, focusing specifically on the Pipeline’s substantial threat to public welfare and outlining the scores of climate change studies…
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