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The Department of Utility Services is responsible for all facets of water, wastewater, and reclaimed water services for the City of Henderson. The Department provides treatment and distribution of drinking water, collection and reclamation of wastewater, laboratory testing services, utility infrastructure planning and management, and customer care and billing services.

Their mission is to provide vital water and wastewater services to their citizens while protecting the environment, health and prosperity of their community. They provide high quality potable drinking water, which meets or exceeds all federal and state water quality requirements. The City maintains more than 1,200 miles of water pipelines, and more than 920 miles of sewer pipelines. The Department’s water quality laboratory collects water samples from their treatment plans every day, and conducts hundreds of tests every month.

The Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) is a cooperative, not-for-profit agency formed in 1991 to address Southern Nevada’s unique water needs on a regional basis. SNWA official are charged with managing the region’s water resources and providing for Las Vegas Valley residents’ and businesses’ present and future water needs.

SNWA is governed by a seven-member agency comprised of representatives from each of its member organizations. These member agencies are: Big Bend Water District, Boulder City, Clark County Water Reclamation, Henderson, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Valley Water District, North Las Vegas. Since 1991, the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) has developed and implemented one of the most progressive and comprehensive water conservation programs in the nation.

Conservation efforts in the Las Vegas Valley have helped the community reduce its per capita water use by more than 40 percent between 2002 and 2014, even as the population increased by more than 500,000 residents during that time. As part of its water resource planning efforts, SNWA uses population forecasts prepared by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to project water demands 50 years into the future, which allows Southern Nevada’s regional water provider to pair the water resources necessary with the projected water demands. This ensures the SNWA's water resource strategies will meet the community’s water needs for the next half-century.
SNWA's Water Resource Plan provides a comprehensive overview of the water resources and demands in Southern Nevada and describes the agency’s approach to forecasting and managing water demands and meeting long-term resource needs, including during times of declared shortages. In addition, SNWA formed the Integrated Resource Planning Advisory Committee(IRPAC) to help guide future water resource planning for Southern Nevada by evaluating SNWA's resource development and management, facilities, funding, planning, conservation and water quality.