"When the Well's Dry, We Know the Worth of Water"  -Benjamin Franklin

Drought and Future Water Supply are cause for Growing Concern. How will it affect Nevada agricultural land values? Farm and Ranch land values will be based on the supply, demand for food will only increase. Many areas of the United States are seeing the unintended consequences of over pumping on large scales. As this continues, the question of supply will grow as the focus of debate. Priority dates will likely add value in higher demand areas.

Do you know your Water consumption numbers? Including the food you eat and clothes you wear?

Is Sustainable Living Important to you?

“Water is the new oil,” says Jim Rogers, chief executive of Duke Energy

Are we entering a ‘Golden Age’ for agriculture?

The economic downturn, water scarcity, rising oil prices, climate change and the loss of prime farmlands are creating "a perfect storm" that is likely to leave many hungry people in its wake.

Nevada Land Blog

USDA Analysis Confirms Cap-and-Trade Damages Agriculture

Strategizing For Water Cutbacks


It is About the Water


As Colorado River Dwindles, Homes and Farms Face Supply Cuts

Ganges, Colorado Among Major Rivers Drying Up as Climate Warms

2009 Drought Actions


Drought in California Forces Farmers to Spend on `Fire Water'

Nevada's State Engineer office processes and has control of the decision process for new applications, protests, transfers, changes in use, changes in point of diversion, basin transfers, etc. The State of Nevada, Divisions of Water Resources, engineers office controls water use in Nevada.

There are laws and many test cases and precedents set based on trial case law history.

Nevada Water Rights

Once granted, water rights in Nevada have the standing of both personal and real property, meaning they are conveyed as an appurtenance to real property unless they are specifically excluded in the deed of conveyance. It is possible to change the water's point of diversion, manner of use and place of use by filing the appropriate application with the state engineer

Appropriative Water Right [Nevada]

Nevada's water law is based on statutes enacted in 1903 and 1905 and are founded on the principal of Prior Appropriation. Unlike some other states, Nevada has a statewide system for the administration of both ground water and surface water. Appropriative water rights are based on the concept of applying water to Beneficial Use and "First in Time, First in Right." Appropriative water rights can be lost through nonuse and they may be sold or transferred apart from the land. Due in large part to the relative scarcity of water in Nevada and numerous competing uses, Nevada has had a thriving market for water transfers for a number of years.

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Chris W. Miller    Vegas Grand Realty & Property Management      435-862-5951