Governor Joe Lombardo signing a new law to help fight the drought and climate change in Nevada. More than a million dollars will be used over the next two years for cloud seeding. Conservation group Save Red Rock is celebrating the news as a big win.
Read MoreLas Vegas Review Journal: Centennial Subaru teams up with Save Red Rock
Centennial Subaru Love Promise employee volunteers joined the Save Red Rock organization at Blue Diamond village for an Earth Day social and educational event on April 22. The event promoted water conservation and ways to maintain and protect the environment.
Read MoreKTNV ABC 13: Cloud seeding success: Efforts to increase precipitation in Red Rock Canyon pay off
While this year’s wet winter is undeniably a major factor in that change, cloud seeding efforts are partially to thank, said Pauline Van Betten, a land and water specialist with conservation organization Save Red Rock.
Read MoreDesert Companion: Desert Drift
Rafting the Colorado River in search of what we’d lose if it ran dry
Read MoreKVVU Fox 5 Las Vegas: Cloud seeding helps extract more water from rounds of winter storms in Southern Nevada
By Kim Passoth LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – The tremendous rainfall this winter has had an impact on Nevada’s drought. This time two years ago, Southern Nevada was in an exceptional drought, the worst possible category. Now, all of Clark County is either in a severe or moderate drought marking a significant improvement. Up at Lee…
Read MoreAssociated Press: Feds spend $2.4 million on cloud seeding for Colorado River
The Southern Nevada Water Authority on Thursday voted to accept a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to fund cloud seeding in other Western states whose rivers feed the parched desert region.
Read MoreLondon Review of Books: The Rainmakers of the American Southwest
I learned of the cloud seeders in Red Rock Canyon from a friend’s husband. It was late autumn in Beatty, Nevada, a windswept town two hours north of Las Vegas, and we’d just returned from a hike in Death Valley. ‘Have you heard of these people trying to manufacture clouds in Red Rock?’ he asked me.
Read MoreThe New York Times: 7 States, 1 River and an Agonizing Choice
In the United States, 40 million people in seven states depend on water provided by the Colorado River. After 20 years of drought, the situation is dire and the river is at risk of becoming a “deadpool,” a condition in which there is not enough water to pass through the dams.
Read MoreElko Daily Free Press: Elko County to give money for cloud seeding
ELKO – Elko County Commissioners have agreed to contribute to the Ruby Mountain Cloud Seeding Project that last year produced roughly 19,712 acre-feet of additional snow water equivalent in the Ruby Mountains, but they acknowledged that current snowpack is above normal. Chairman Rex Steninger said the project is a “great program,” and he supported funding…
Read MoreKSNV News 3: Scientist: Cloud seeding at Red Rock Canyon successfully increasing rainfall
Las Vegas (KSNV) — The steady winter storms this season are especially good news at Red Rock Canyon, where a project is turning the rain into more rain. Scientists say they’ve successfully increased rain in Red Rock Canyon this season by cloud seeding. A machine sends particles into very cold clouds, and water freezes on…
Read MoreKLAS CBS 8 News Now: Visits to Red Rock Canyon become growing Thanksgiving tradition
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Taking a hike at Red Rock Canyon before taking in a Thanksgiving meal has become a growing holiday tradition that over a thousand people took advantage of this year.
Read MoreNEWSY: Cloud Seeding May Help Sustain Ecosystem in Nevada’s Red Rock Canyon
Scientists are trying to create snow in the mountains to save the plants and animals in the dried-out canyon. The stakes are high, not just at the tables on the Las Vegas Strip, but just a short drive away at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
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