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The 28-page Layperson's Guide to Water Rights Law, recognized as the most thorough explanation of California water rights law available to non-lawyers, traces the authority for water flowing in a stream or reservoir, from a faucet or into an irrigation ditch through the complex web of California water rights. It includes historical information on the development of water rights law, sections on surface water rights and groundwater rights, a description of the different agencies involve in water rights, and a section on the issues not only shaped by water rights decisions but that are also driving changes in water rights. Includes chronology of landmark cases and legislation and an extensive glossary.
The Appropriative Rights Model Water Code provides a model of a coherent body of law that can be utilized to improve existing water allocation laws in states committed to appropriative rights. Appropriative rights takes its name from the legal requirement that water be "appropriated" and applied to a "beneficial use" in order for one to acquire the right to use it. Today, appropriative rights remain in the predominant body of law for the quantitative allocation of water in the 18 states west of Kansas City. This committee report originated from a detailed review of existing water allocation laws in these states. A hydrologically based legal framework that balances human and environmental needs, the Appropriative Rights Model Water Code integrates the management of water quality and water quantity and takes into consideration the appropriate social, economical, political, and administrative aspects of water management.
A detailed study of the engagement of state law with indigenous rights to water in comparative legal and policy contexts.
Sponsored by the Task Committee for the Shared Use of Transboundary Water Resources of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute and the Laws and Institutions Committee of ASCE. This report proposes clear standards and principles for effective and efficient water sharing among two or more autonomous political bodies. Drawing from existing transboundary agreements, this report presents a series of model codes that could limit the potential for conflict while providing an appropriate balance among efficient use of the water resource for economic purposes, public health, and ecological protection. Three model agreements are presented for use according to the willingness of the parties to forgo sovereignty. All three models?coordination and cooperation, limited purpose, and comprehensive management?focus on the allocation and use of shared waters and on resolving conflicts involving such waters. These three water sharing agreements can be used within the United States and, with minor alterations, in the international arena.