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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Southern Nevada Water Authority"”.
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A benefit-cost analysis of an interstate seawater desalination plant shared between California and Nevada
According to the Southern Nevada Water Authority (2002), increasing demands for water in southern Nevada will require the importation of additional water resources. The purpose of this thesis was to examine one possible imported resource: an interstate seawater desalination cooperative between …
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What's swimming in my glass? The debate over the Southern Nevada Water Authority's use of the return flow credit policy
Currently the Southern Nevada Water Authority uses an existing federal policy of return flow credits to divert water from Lake Mead above the annual allocation authorized by the Colorado River System Water Use Agreement. Credits obtained by the return of treated effluent allow water officials to …
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Process Modeling of Trihalomethanes During Aquifer Storage and Recovery
… southwestern United States, by injecting treated water underground during wet periods and recovering water during dry periods. Trihalomethanes are the most common disinfection by-products found in chlorinated water, a result of chlorine reacting with dissolved organic matter, and are linked to …
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Las Vegas in an Era of Limits: Urban Water Politics in the Colorado River Basin
… metropolis, the Las Vegas metropolitan area's water supply is limited by law and not by local environmental conditions. The federal government allocates 300,000 acre-feet of water per year to the metro-area. During the 1980s the Las Vegas metro-area grew from 400,000 people to 750,000, …