Southern Nevada Water Authority
The Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) is a cooperative agency formed in 1991 to address Southern Nevada's unique water needs on a regional basis. SNWA officials are charged with managing the region's water resources and providing for Las Vegas Valley residents' and businesses' present and future water needs. Find us on Facebook (@thesnwa), Twitter (@SNWA_H2O) and Instagram (@southernnevadawaterauthority)www.snwa.com
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Oct 23, 2026
Sam SchaafHOST
It's not something that just suddenly arrived from the planet Zantar and that we have to deal with.
Sam SchaafHOST
It's something that, yes, obviously, and Southern Nevada Water Authority is taking care of a portion of this.
Sam SchaafHOST
We have to have closed-loop water systems.
Sam SchaafHOST
We have to have energy generation.
Sam ShadHOST
It's not something that just suddenly arrived from the planet Zontar and that we have to deal with.
Sam ShadHOST
It's something that, yes, obviously, and Southern Nevada Water Authority has taken care of a portion of this, uh, we have to have closed loop water systems.
Sam ShadHOST
We have to have energy generation.
Sam ShadHOST
Brad Crowell was on the program probably about a year ago now, uh, talking about small modular reactors, uh, that could be on site at data centers to provide the power.
Helen FoleyGUEST
Can we have a data center without it affecting me is probably the most important thing.
Sam SchaafHOST
Well, close the loop water systems from Southern Nevada Water Authority-
Helen FoleyGUEST
Close the water system, make sure they, they produce their own power
Sam SchaafHOST
... small nuclear reactors.
Helen FoleyGUEST
So-
Sam ShadHOST
Well, closed-loop water systems from Southern Nevada Water Authority-
Helen FoleyGUEST
Close the water system, make sure they, they produce their own power
Sam ShadHOST
... small nuclear reactors.
Josh JacksonNARRATOR
Protecting Basawabi required tribal members to tell outsiders what had happened there and what the valley still held.
Josh JacksonNARRATOR
The Southern Nevada Water Authority proposal would have pumped groundwater from Spring Valley and neighboring basins and carried it through a 300-mile pipeline to Las Vegas.
Josh JacksonNARRATOR
The plan ominously echoed the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which began diverting water from the Owens Valley in 1913, disrupting Numuk irrigation systems and reducing much of Owens Lake to an exposed salt flat.
Josh JacksonNARRATOR
Now another desert metropolis was seeking to sustain its growth by drawing water from a distant indigenous homeland.
Xander PippenHOST
Arizona has joined Nevada's federal lawsuit over future cuts to the amount of water the states get from the Colorado River.
Xander PippenHOST
In a statement, Governor Joe Lombardo and the Southern Nevada Water Authority welcomed the other lower basin states' participation in the suit.
Xander PippenHOST
Nevada filed the suit in August, challenging the Trump administration's 10-year plan to conserve water as Lake Mead continues to shrink.
Xander PippenHOST
Under the plan, upper basin states would not be required to make cuts.
speaker_13NARRATOR
Keep saving water where it matters most: outdoors.
speaker_13NARRATOR
Learn more at snwa.com. SNWA is a not-for-profit water agency.
Brian UlrichHOST
Okay
Tracie JacksonGUEST
... you know, southern Nevada and the Southern Nevada Water Authority was looking at other basins in Nevada so they could pipe water to Las Vegas.
Brian UlrichHOST
Yeah.
Tracie JacksonGUEST
And so with this project, looking at if you were to put a lot of large production wells in the valley, are you gonna affect the streams and springs in the national park?
Hank VoglerGUEST
[laughs] Well, I'm a little paranoid, I, I guess with, uh, reasoning.
Hank VoglerGUEST
I don't know, it just, uh, you know, w- when, uh, when you've got Southern Nevada Water Authority, Nevada Department of Wildlife, T. Boone Pickens...
Hank VoglerGUEST
No, not T. Boone.
Hank VoglerGUEST
I, I messed up.
Nathan BallHOST
But I think it's a good understanding to say, hey, look, there are other options out there besides just the evaporative cooling.
Nathan BallHOST
And honestly, like Southern Nevada Water Authority here in the state of Nevada has actually put a moratorium on evaporative cooling anyway.
Nathan BallHOST
So I think a lot of people have to start growing their – their ability to engineer these type of systems to be able to meet this demand.
Nathan BallHOST
So from what you've studied, where is the common infrastructure going now for these type of data centers?
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