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Commission backs local water changes for Washington County to protect Virgin River supplies
Summary
The Legislative Water Development Commission gave a favorable recommendation to a narrowly tailored bill from Rep. Jack that would exempt certain district-owned rights from a 40-year rule and bar private water-right owners from using in‑stream flow changes that could remove water from Utah’s Lower Colorado-basin portions of Washington and Kane counties.
Representative Jack and a Washington County water expert told the commission on Jan. 9 that a small, geographically targeted change would give local water managers more flexibility to manage scarce supplies on the Virgin River.
Zach Renstrom of the Washington County Water Conservancy District said the county treats all sources as a single "one-water" supply and expects more than half of future local supplies to come from reuse. He described two main…
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