Nye County is turning to its neighbors to the east for aid in protecting Pahrump’s water, with a letter to the Clark County Commission imploring that body to deny any solar development applications that would utilize the Pahrump Valley’s already strained water resources.
Sitting right on the border of Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge is a proposed exploratory drilling project that many fear would devastate the desert oasis and those fears have now been formalized in a letter from Nye County to the Bureau of Land Management.