Water Rights

• Colorado is getting ready for the final phase in a 23-year dispute with Kansas over water from the Arkansas River.

• High stakes water fight before Neb. high court

• Tri-state water wars fought on many fronts

• Colorado stewards the headwaters of three other great rivers, the Arkansas, the Rio Grande and the Colorado

• California Water Agencies Adopts Principles on Sustainability
  Environmental and economic sustainability as co-equal priorities

• UT conference addresses new pact to protect Great Lakes, groundwater issues, cross-boundary pollution

• SF: APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS ROHNERT PARK WATER SUPPLY

• Georgia’s hopes fading for reversing water ruling

• Research, recreation groups protest water rights for proposed nuke plant

• Grounding Connectivity: Do rivers have aquifer rights?
  “It is better to be approximately right rather than comprehensively wrong.”
  
  

• Nebraska Water Map Illustrates State Water Issues

• Groups want stronger control of Great Lakes water
  Congress should delete language to designate water as a product

• Auburn Dam may really be dead this time
  
  

• Mapping the future of water supply
  
  
  Image: Suzanne Starr for The National

• Westlands Water District addresses CA Fish &Game Commission meeting today regarding Proposed 1 Million Acre Feet Cut to CA Water Supplies

• Step taken toward removing Klamath River dams
  Agreed in principle to a dam-removal plan along the California and Oregon border
  
  

• Measuring water from space
  Observations from satellites now allow scientists to monitor changes to water levels in the sea, in rivers and lakes, in ice sheets and even under the ground

• Public Agencies Oppose New Threat to Statewide Water Supply

• Quebec Legislation Will Eliminate Private Rights to Water

• Cache County votes to establish water bank

• Impose needed natural gas tax
  Groundwater generally flows into the voids left after the methane is removed

• Phrase “water war” was mentioned at least three times at the Kansas Water Authority meeting.

• The desired future condition of the Ogallala Aquifer

• Why Big Banks May End up Buying Your City's Public Water System

• 2008 water shutoff feared
  1,700 rights holders in 12 counties may face restrictions
  
  

• DWR Releases Initial State Water Project Allocation

• Legislative report calls for water  rights changes

• New Treaty Aims to Protect Shared International Groundwater

• Water rights for Auburn dam could be revoked