WATER RIGHTS LAWS IN THE NINETEEN WESTERN STATES.

Hutchins, Wells A.; Ellis, Harold H.; DeBraal, J. Peter

Item #: 14462

Pages: 3v.
Published: Union; Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.; 2004.

Subjects: CONSERVATION/ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, NATURAL RESOURCES, STATE LAW

Rights to the use of water from surface and undergroundsources are often crucial in the seventeen contiguousWestern states, Alaska and Hawaii. This work offers acomparative analysis of the development and status of theconstitutional provisions, statutes, reported courtdecisions and administrative regulations, practices andpolicies regarding water rights laws in these states. Theanalysis considers the nature of these water rights andtheir acquisition, control, transfer, protection and loss.Federal, interstate and international matters are alsodiscussed.Reprinted by Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.William S. Hein & Co., Inc.

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