While impactful news can be many things, we often think of it as being investigative in nature and shining a light into a dark corner that others want kept hidden. For The Nevada Independent, that dark corner involved a questionably run water district, and the flashlight belonged to reporter Daniel Rothberg. When Rothberg began reporting on the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) General Improvement District’s (GID) water district, he wasn’t expecting to find anything peculiar. He was simply following up on an “eminent domain†story in which companies housed in the industrial park attempted to get a right-of-way for a pipeline that would bring them more water via treated effluent and wastewater.
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