Southern Nevada Water Authority Case Study

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The Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) is a government agency that was developed to manage Southern Nevada’s water needs. The SNWA has worked persistently to manage and diversify their water resources in order to be one step further along in the process of ensuring water in their regions for many years to come. The pipeline is about partnering with other states and regions to ensure communities are protected for guaranteeing future water sources when needed. SNWA would like to move forward with the pipeline guaranteeing that water would be allocated and monitored so that current farming, and rural and urban communities would be protected and safeguarded against water depletion.

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