(Julie Jacobson | AP) This March 23, 2012 photo shows pipes extending into Lake Mead well above the high water mark near Boulder City, Nev. A Nevada state judge has again put a halt to a decades-long bid to tap groundwater beneath vast rangelands in northeast Nevada and pipe it to fast-growing suburbs and glittering gambling resorts in and around Las Vegas. In a strongly worded written ruling, Judge Robert Estes said Monday, March 9, 2020, he saw no reason to undo findings he made in December 2013 that crippled a Southern Nevada Water Authority plan to spend billions of dollars to pump groundwater some 300 miles from four rural valleys in White Pine and Lincoln counties near the Utah border.