ABSTRACT
It was a particularly cold night in Vermont. Snuggled in my yurt while snow piled up on the branches of a seemingly magical forest outside, I felt incredible gratitude for the self-sustaining life I was enjoying. Reading by candlelight to conserve the electricity I had generated from the sun during the day, I stayed up later than usual reading about the latest developments in the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s pipeline, referred to internally as the Northern Resources Project. The project is designed to pump 200,000 acre-feet a year, or 65 billion gallons, 300 miles south to Las Vegas from groundwater basins in northeastern Nevada.1
