Author: John Norton PomeroyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation laws
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
A Treatise on the Law of Water Rights as the Same is Formulated and Applied in the Pacific States
Author: John Norton PomeroyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation laws
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Treatise on the Law of Water Rights as the Same Is Formulated and Applied in the Pacific States, Including the Doctrine of Appropriation and the Statutes and Decisions Relating to Irrigation (rev. and Enl. Ed.)
Author: Ruling the Waters
Author: Douglas R. LittlefieldPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806166967
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
When Europeans first arrived at what is now California’s San Joaquin Valley, they found a vast landscape of wetlands, small ponds, riparian forests, and grasslands surrounding three large swampland lakes. What greets a visitor to the region today is a dramatically different view of mile after mile of row crops, vineyards, orchards, and grazing acreage—some of the most fertile and productive agricultural land in the world. This remarkable transformation, with its enduring consequences, is at the center of Ruling the Waters, a legal, social, and environmental history of how western water law shaped, and was shaped by, the subjugation of the largest freshwater wetlands wildlife habitat in the West. At the heart of efforts to wrest arable land from the region was the Kern River, which rises in the Sierra Nevada and carries snowmelt to what was once a great network of lakes, sloughs, and marshes at the southern end of California’s Central Valley. In Ruling the Waters Douglas R. Littlefield describes how, over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, pioneers and entrepreneurs diverted water out of this network of waterways to extract gold in the mountains and irrigate farms lower down the river, and how the law was made to accommodate these practices. Struggles over the Kern River’s water established one of the most important concepts in water law in some parts of the United States—that prior appropriation, dependent on the chronological order of diversions from waterways, could legally coexist with riparian rights, which restrict water usage to landownership directly next to a river or stream. Littlefield traces this concept to the 1886 California Supreme Court case of Lux v. Haggin—which pitted the giant farming and cattle company of Miller & Lux against a prominent land baron, James B. Haggin—and shows how the lawsuit profoundly shaped future waters issues, which in turn influenced water laws in other western states that were grappling with similar questions. Far from a dry legal history, Ruling the Waters tells a story with world-wide historical environmental ramifications, a tale of competing personalities and values and visions that forever changed both the economy and the ecology of the American West.
A Treatise on the Law of Riparian Rights as the Same is Formulated and Applied in the Pacific States
Author: John Norton PomeroyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation laws
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A Treatise on the Law of Water Rights as the Same Is Formulated and Applied in the Pacific States
Author: John Norton PomeroyPublisher: Arkose Press
ISBN: 9781345237467
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
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A Treatise on the Law of Irrigation and Water Rights and the Arid Region Doctrine of Appropriation of Waters as the Same is in Force in the States of the Arid and Semi-arid Regions of the United States
Author: Clesson Selwyne KinneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1144
Book Description
A Treatise on the Law of Irrigation
Author: Clesson Selwyne KinneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Treatise on the Law of Water Rights as the Same Is Formulated and Applied in the Pacific States, including the Doctrine of Appropriation and the Statutes and Decisions Relating to Irrigation
Author: John Norton PomeroyPublishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Law Books, 1876-1981
Author: R.R. Bowker CompanyPublisher: New York : R.R. Bowker Company
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description