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. …


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, …


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. [...] …



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, …


DWFI: Water for Food Institute · 26 January 2018 English

Whether it is the need for infrastructure to shift from groundwater use to surface water, as in the case of Harris-Galveston Subsidence District; the development and use of computer models …