Nevada Builder Wants Arizona Town's Water...

Nevada builder wants Arizona town's water, from the Arizona Republic, reports that Wind River Resources, a Nevada Corporation, has filed an application with the Arizona Dept. of Water Resources to pump as much as 14,000 acre-feet annually from an aquifer near Littlefield, AZ to serve the growing population in Mesquite, Nevada. "This falls very squarely into the category of a bad idea," said Kris Mays, a member of the Arizona Corporation Commission, which regulates water companies in rural parts of the state. "Arizona groundwater should stay in Arizona." Jack Riley, a Las Vegas developer, recently bought 2,000-acres in Arizona along Interstate 15 near Littlefield and wants to build a master-planned community, but now is faced with the prospects that a Nevada development could get the water he was counting on. A public hearing is scheduled for late November to go over the proposal to serve Mesquite, Nevada with Arizona water.



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