Monday, December 22, 2008

City of the Day - Reno, NV

Reno is the county seat of Washoe County, Nevada, United States. A 2006 estimate indicated that the city's population had increased to 210,255, but ranked Reno as the fourth largest city in the state following Las Vegas, Henderson, and North Las Vegas. Reno lies 26 miles (42 km) north of the Nevada state capital, Carson City, and 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Lake Tahoe in a shrub-steppe. The area of Western Nevada and the California Sierra Nevada anchored by Reno has a population of approximately 700,000 people. Reno shares its eastern border with the city of Sparks and is the larger of the principal cities of the Reno-Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), a metropolitan area that covers Storey and Washoe counties. Reno, known as "The Biggest Little City in the World", is famous for its casinos, and is the birthplace of the gaming corporation Harrah's Entertainment. Archaeological finds place the eastern border for the prehistoric Martis people in the Reno area.

You can view Reno, NV water companies here.

You can view other Nevada water companies here.

Water News

An Environmental Working Group analysis of tap water tests from 1998 through 2002 shows that customers of Truckee Meadows Water Authority drank water containing up to 27 pollutants, including one unregulated contaminant. Truckee Meadows Water Authority is one of 65,000 water suppliers across the country wrestling with treating water polluted by sprawl, sewage, factory farms, and industry.

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