The Nevada Independent
Walker Lake win — In ongoing efforts to restore dwindling Walker Lake in central Nevada, the Walker Basin Conservancy has acquired and will permanently protect 1,200 acre-feet of water in the Walker River watershed.
The conservancy acquired the decreed storage water from Poore Lake, California, in the headwaters of the Walker River, marking its first water acquisition for the lake from over the border. While about 75 percent of land from the Walker River Basin falls in Nevada, nearly all its water arrives as snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada mountains in California.
The conservancy has now acquired 59 percent of the estimated 50,000 acre-feet of water needed to restore Walker Lake.
