# Nevada Water Watch — Straight talk about our water

> Straight talk about our water (iPhone/iPad app by Daniel Balette.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nevada-water-watch/id6806642089 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Daniel Balette](https://appshunter.io/developer/6796348761)
- Category: Weather, Reference
- Price: $29.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 15 MB
- Languages: American English, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-09-02
- Data updated: 2026-09-09
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nevada-water-watch/id6806642089/reviews.md

## What is Nevada Water Watch?

Nevada Water Watch tracks Nevada's water story with real numbers, not headlines: reservoirs, rivers, snowpack, drought, and groundwater, explained in plain English.

WHAT'S INSIDE

Reservoirs: Lake Mead and Lake Mohave, plus Lahontan, Wild Horse, and Rye Patch Reservoirs.

Rivers: live gauge readings for the Truckee, Carson, Walker, and Humboldt Rivers.

Snowpack and precipitation: Nevada's mountain snowpack, tracked at both the Carson Range near Tahoe and the Ruby Mountains in Elko County.

Drought: statewide and county-level drought footprint, updated weekly.

Groundwater: six real Nevada hydrographic basins with their official designation and perennial-yield status, plus a live monitoring well per basin with its own multi-year depth-to-water history.

Water quality: live pH, temperature, conductance, dissolved oxygen, and turbidity readings from Nevada's river monitoring stations.

Colorado River: an explanation of the return-flow credit mechanism that lets Las Vegas grow on the smallest Lower Basin apportionment of any of the three states, and why Nevada's shortage cuts land the same way Arizona's do, unlike California's.

Stories and insights: curated "Straight Talk About Our Water" stories plus live-computed insights, with a timeline slider back to 1990.

Data quality, shown honestly: every reading is labeled provisional, reviewed, reported, last-known, or unavailable. Nothing is presented as current if it isn't.

Forecasting: an on-device condition model and a random-forest direction forecaster, both trained from scratch on your device from real historical readings. No server, no bundled model file.

Analytics: which readings the model trusted (and why it left the rest out), a plain-language data-quality ledger, drinking-water violation history for Nevada's largest municipal utilities, and real Nevada tribal water-rights entitlements with legal citations.

This is a live-data product, not a static report. Live public data is fetched directly by your device, with no backend server in between.

Also available on Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-09

Two Nevada stories, told properly.

The Three Straws: the three intakes Las Vegas has sunk into a falling Lake Mead since 1971, as a dated timeline with archival photographs, ending on a live gauge that reads today's water line against each intake, dead pool, and the pumping floor below it.

The River Nevada Moved: the 1905 diversion that sent the Truckee out of its own basin, dropped Pyramid Lake by about eighty-seven feet, and dried Winnemucca Lake completely.

Also in this update:
- Agriculture now charts the water crops actually use, not just the acres they cover
- Cards on Explore, Stories and Analytics are in the right places, and none of them appear twice any more
- Fixed a data ledger that listed two rows with the same name
- The aquifer toggle no longer covers the map's own controls

### 1.0 — 2026-09-02

No release notes.

## More apps by Daniel Balette

- [MPLS Crime Watch](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mpls-crime-watch/id6796348759)
- [Arizona Water Watch](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/arizona-water-watch/id6797727942)
- [Colorado Water Watch](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/colorado-water-watch/id6807280137)

All apps by Daniel Balette: https://appshunter.io/developer/6796348761

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