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A FACT SHEET on

Virgin Valley Water District (VVWD) and Wind River Resources (WRR) “A Nevada development company attempting to hijack Arizona water to provide for development in Southern Nevada at the expense of the residents of Mohave County”

• Nevada/Las Vegas developers have built irresponsibly for too long

• In 2005 13,500 acres, on the northern boarder of Mesquite NV, were purchased from the Bureau of Land Management.  The land was sold to buyers with the caveat that there was no water and a pipeline costing hundreds of millions was necessary.  Now they are looking to AZ water instead.

• Las Vegas continues to consume more water than what is sustainable

• Mesquite is currently pushing for approximately 7,000 acres more from the Bureau of Land Management to sell to developers

• Private Nevada land owners applying to ADWR to take AZ’s water

• Wind River Resources (WWR) applied to Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) to transfer 14,000 acre feet, equivalent to more than 4.5 billion gallons, of water per year from Mormon Wells (which is 1.5 miles upstream of Beaver Dam Wash, AZ) to Mesquite, NV. Virgin Valley Water District (VVWD) in NV would be the regional water provider.

  • It is estimated that WWR would be taking 70% of water in wells

• WWR would drill the well on a 40-acre piece of land owned by Scenic Investments, LLC which is managed by wealthy businessmen in Nevada.

• Nevada developers robbing and polluting Arizona

• Mesquite’s water supply currently exceeds arsenic standards.  Rather than pay for costly treatment, they want to take Arizona’s water, mix it with theirs, and dilute the arsenic to acceptable levels.

  • The water they would take from AZ is worth hundreds of millions of dollars

• Some of the water will be returned to Scenic AZ for consumption, but the towns of Beaver Dam and Littlefield will not receive any water

  • WWR understated the amount of developable land in Beaver Dam and Littlefield in their application to DWR

  • Existing Beaver Dam wells could go dry, which would destroy potential economic development and to cover growth in the area

• If the risk of subsidence is too severe, WWR would pump back arsenic laced water or treated sewage water

• Current situation

• WWR attempting to rush DWR hearing—wanted a December 11^th, 2006 The DWR hearing will likely take place in mid January

• On 9/18/2006 the Mohave Board of supervisors unanimously voted to investigate the WWR application for piping water to Mesquite

• Hundreds of signatures from residents were submitted to the ADWR director to oppose WWR

• If Mohave County/Arizona’s water is moved to Nevada, the natural growth of Mohave County cannot be sustained, injuring school funding, economic development and the environment