Nevada Committee begins ‘treacherous journey’ to look at water law

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Nevada Committee begins ‘treacherous journey’ to look at water law





















An interim legislative committee looking at fixes for Nevada water law began meeting this week with a primer and a caution. “We are about to embark on a treacherous journey,” Jason King, state engineer, told the five-member Subcommittee to Study Water at its initial meeting Monday in Las Vegas. The Legislative Commission’s subcommittee is meeting six times during the interim to study one of the state’s most contentious issues and then submit up to five bill draft requests to the 2017 Legislature.Those BDRs must be meticulously crafted, King said, in order to gain support, get passed and stand up in  …
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