Water

LAS VEGAS — With a crucial water rights decision pending, the Southern Nevada Water Authority is revising its request to Nevada’s top water rights official — asking to raise by almost 80 percent the amount of groundwater Las Vegas can draw from rural valleys in counties north of the city.

FARMINGTON — This city’s largest employer will now pay the same commercial rate for water as other commercial customers.

PLAIN CITY -- State Sen. Scott Jenkins recently discussed with the city council a few issues that would affect the city in the future.

The Weber Basin Water Conservancy District has applied to raise Willard Bay by 3 feet, Jenkins said.

"That will be coming down the pike in the next year. It will increase the flow in the canal that comes to the junction by 50 to 100 percent," he said.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has abruptly changed its mind about delivering fresh water to residents of a northeastern Pennsylvania village where residential wells were tainted from natural gas drilling operations.

GREEN RIVER, Wyo -- The latest application for a federal permit to construct a pipeline to haul water from the Green River in southwestern Wyoming to Colorado's sprawling Front Range is sparking opposition from environmental groups and others in the "Cowboy State."

The city is making repairs to a well to keep the non-fluoridated water source available to residents.

In 2002, the old church well was put in operation so people could access non-fluoridated drinking water. People can fill containers at the new pump station built on the site.

SYRACUSE — There may be a move to meter secondary water in this city, although not in the near future.