The bill would give the Southern Nevada Water Authority the ability to cap residential water use during a federally declared water shortage.
Lake Mead/Hoover Dam
The storms that swept across the Western U.S. this winter dropped so much water that less than one-quarter of the nation’s driest state remains in drought.
Forecasters expect the Colorado River to see some of its highest flows in more than a decade as snow melts off the Rockies this spring and summer.
