Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power Publisher: ISBN: Category : Water conservation Languages : en Pages : 86
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power Publisher: ISBN: Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 224
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power Publisher: ISBN: Category : Water conservation Languages : en Pages : 88
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power Publisher: ISBN: Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 217
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power Publisher: ISBN: Category : Water conservation Languages : en Pages : 84
Author: United States. Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission Publisher: ISBN: Category : Water Languages : en Pages : 452
Book Description
This report provides a good overview of the status of the West's water and of the pressures that require change in our water management practices. ... The [Western Water Policy Review Advisory] Commission was charged with a comprehensive review of Federal activities in the western states which affect the use and allocation of water, and the review of numerous aspects of water resources, management, institutional and legal matters, and the performance of federal agencies. ... No single solution was identified in this report for these complex challenges, but [the] central recommendation is that the federal government must support watershed and basin innovation.
Author: James H. Davenport Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476681201 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 298
Book Description
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.