Water Rights In The United States

Author : Robert H. Abrams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781641050975
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Rights and Environmental Regulation written by Robert H. Abrams and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While state law almost exclusively governs the allocation of surface waters in the United States, there are also reserved rights, an important class of water rights created by federal law. Written by practitioners in private practice, government, and academia, each with extensive experience in the area, this focused book discusses the impact of federal environmental law on the use of water resources.

Author : Wells A. Hutchins
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584774142
Total Pages : 2290 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Rights Laws in the Nineteen Western States written by Wells A. Hutchins and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 2290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hutchins, Wells A., Harold H. Ellis and J. Peter DeBraal. Water Rights Laws in the Nineteen Western States. [Washington, D.C.]: United States Department of Agriculture. [1971]. Three volumes. Reprint available July 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-414-2. Cloth. $350. * Rights to the use of water from surface and underground sources are often crucial in the seventeen contiguous Western states, Alaska and Hawaii. This work offers a comparative analysis of the development and status of the constitutional provisions, statutes, reported court decisions and administrative regulations, practices and policies regarding water rights laws in these states. The analysis considers the nature of these water rights and their acquisition, control, transfer, protection and loss. Federal, interstate and international matters are also discussed.

Author : James H. Davenport
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476641471
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Water Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court written by James H. Davenport and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the little-known history behind the legal doctrine of prior appropriation--"first in time is first in right"--used to apportion water resources in the western United States, this book focuses on the important case of Wyoming v. Colorado (1922). U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter, a former Chief Justice of Wyoming, ruled in that state's favor, finding that prior appropriation applied across state lines--a controversial opinion influenced by cronyism. The dicta in the case, that the U.S. Government has no interest in state water allocation law, drove the balkanization of interstate water systems and resulted in the Colorado River Interstate Compact between Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California. The exhaustive research that has gone into this book has uncovered the secret that Associate Justice Van Devanter had waited eleven years to publish his opinion in this important, but politically self-serving, case, at last finding a moment when his senior colleagues were sufficiently absent or incapacitated to either concur or dissent. Without the knowledge of his "brethren," save his "loyal friend" Taft, and without recusal, Van Devanter unilaterally delivered his sole opinion to the Clerk for publication on the last day of the Supreme Court's October 1921 Term.

Author : Samuel Charles Wiel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Rights in the Western States written by Samuel Charles Wiel and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text focuses on the common law and federal and state statutes pertaining to the water rights of lands west of the 100th meridian. Initially the law was one of possessory right upon the public domain. As a sidelight it provides insight into the legal history and situation in the West during this time period.

Author : Wells Aleck Hutchins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Rights Laws in the Nineteen Western States written by Wells Aleck Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309045282
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Transfers in the West written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West faces many challenges, but none is more important than the challenge of managing its water. This book examines the role that water transfers can play in allocating the region's scarce water resources. It focuses on the variety of third parties, including Native Americans, Hispanic communities, rural communities, and the environment, that can sometimes be harmed when water is moved. The committee presents recommendations to guide states, tribes, and federal agencies toward better regulation. Seven in-depth case studies are presented: Nevada's Carson-Truckee basin, the Colorado Front Range, northern New Mexico, Washington's Yakima River basin, central Arizona, and the Central and Imperial valleys in California. Water Transfers in the West presents background and current information on factors that have encouraged water transfers, typical types of transfers, and their potential negative effects. The book highlights the benefits that water transfers can bring but notes the need for more third-party representation in the processes used to evaluate planned transfers.

Author : Ralph Henry Hess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arid-land Water Rights in the United States written by Ralph Henry Hess and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles R. Porter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1641434147
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Rights in the United States written by Charles R. Porter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As water becomes ever more important in a rapidly growing United States challenged by lessening firm-yield water reliability, the public needs to understand the myriads of quite different state-by-state water policies. States share surface water and groundwater sources that relate to each other conjunctively. Texans for example, should understand New Mexico water ownership and state policies because they share surface water and groundwater sources. Californians should understand Nevada’s water policies for the same reasons. Above all else, the people of the United States must realize that a water policy in one state can drastically impact water availability in neighboring states. Although the federal government has supra-legal authority over some state water policies and acts as the ultimate arbiter of interstate disputes, no one current book exists that explains the complicated relationships between state water policies with an analysis of federal water policies. Water Rights and Polices in the United States is a one-stop resource providing a state-by-state analysis of water ownership, regulatory agencies, and water polices. It explains the complicated relationships between state water policies and provides an analysis of federal water polices. How we manage these policies is of utmost importance to all Americans.

Author : Lloyd Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Indian Water Rights and the Limits of Law written by Lloyd Burton and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burton dissects the irreconcilable conflict of interest within the Interior Department (between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Indian Affairs). He also examines the methods of managing disputes in contemporary cases and offers original policy recommendations that include establishing an Indian Water Rights Commission to help with the paradoxical task now facing the federal government--restoring to tribes the water resources it earlier helped give away.

Author : John W. Johnson
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420086421
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States Water Law written by John W. Johnson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vital Explanation of Water Law and PolicyBecause demand for and access to quality water far exceeds the current supply, it is increasingly critical to understand the state and federal laws and policies that govern water rights. From farming, fishing, and biology to manufacturing, mine operation, and public water supply, water regulation affects a