SOUTHERN NEVADA WATER SYSTEM (NEVADA)

The combination of the Alfred Merritt Smith Plant (a water treatment facility that was built and is owned by the State of Nevada) and the Robert B. Griffith Project (a water transmission facility that was built and is owned by the federal government). The facility can divert 300,000 acre-feet annually (Nevada's Colorado River water allocation) from Lake Mead with a peak operating capacity of 400 million gallons per day. The system supplies approximately 85 percent of the water used by the major water purveyors in Southern Nevada. Also see Colorado River Compact.