5245/Water Resources Law

User icon Heather Dray
1 August 2023
14 items

US water allocation laws and policies in action!


TWRI: Texas Water Resources Institute · 29 July 2003 English

Rivers were guarded by the sharpest gunfighters, and the last of the canteen water belonged to the man with the toughest fists. [...] Generally speaking, lands which were patented from …


Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment · 5 November 2014 English

Water in the West addresses the growing water crisis in California and the West by creating new solutions that move the region toward a more sustainable water future. [...] It …


CPR: Center for Policy Research · 14 January 2020 English

It is pertinent to mention that even though the focus of this Part I of the Report examines the history of water regulation Report is on the regulation of water …


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 22 April 2016 English

We analyze the economic determinants and effects of prior appropriation water rights that were voluntarily implemented across an immense area of the US West, abruptly replacing common-law riparian water rights. …


Archaeology Southwest · 7 June 2010 English

Canal irrigation also raised the productivity of agriculture, and the population of the valley and the rest of the Tucson Basin increased from a few hundred to several thousand. [...] …


ELI: Environmental Law Institute · 1 May 2023 English

Changes in the interpretation of Waters of the United States (WOTUS) resulting from judicial decisions or federal rulemaking place a substantial burden upon state and tribal regulators and legislators. States, …



FWW: Food and Water Watch · 25 January 2023 English

Governor Newsom’s August supplies.121 The state acknowledges that the value of 2022 Water Supply Strategy acknowledges that all water rights is greater than the average amount of the current water …



Center for Indian Country Development · 22 April 2022 English

(2020) find that the speed with which settle- ment occurs after a tribe initiates the adjudication process is a function of several factors that are largely exogenous to the reservations, …