The Great Basin Water Network was formed to protect the water resources of the Great Basin for current and future residents – human, animal and plant.

Organizations, businesses and individuals have banded together to form the Network so that decisions on all water development proposals in the Great Basin are made in the open with caution, coherence and based on the best scientific information. The Great Basin Water Network also works to ensure that decisions are made without undue political and developer special interest pressure.

The Great Basin Water Network's overriding concern is that the Las Vegas metropolitan area and other large communities in the Great Basin implement an effective water conservation program including economic incentive for water smart-practices and implementation of simple, inexpensive conservation measures as opposed to multi-million projects that would burden urban taxpayers while leaving rural families high and dry.