A buoy once used to warn of a submerged rock rests on the ground along the waterline near a closed boat ramp at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area on Aug. 13, 2021, near Boulder City. (Photo: John Locher/AP)
Nevada Appeal Capitol Bureau
Saturday, April 2, 2022
U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., has announced a grant to the University of Nevada, Reno to create a Nevada Water Partnership.
She said the National Science Foundation grant is intended to develop solutions to water needs in Nevada and includes public, private, tribal, non-profit and other groups.
“Nevada has endured two decades of drought and we must prepare for the continued challenges caused by climate change and a drier West,” she said.
The goal of the $149,923 grant is to begin addressing drought long-term.
Cortez Masto said she has worked through her Senate career to secure resources to support and develop water infrastructure including legislation she drafted to create a $450 million competitive grant program for large scale water recycling projects. She said that program could help fund regional water recycling programs that could produce enough water to serve more than 500,000 Southern Nevada and California households.
