Forging new rights in western waters
Print Book, English, ©1983
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©1983
History
xiii, 278 pages ; 23 cm
9780803216631, 0803216637
8627359
The First Irrigations
The Mormon Experience
Farmers, Investors, and Ditches
Construction by States
National Reclamation
Modification of a Property Right
A New Property Right in Western Waters
The Colorado System of Water-Right Enforcement
Creating the Wyoming System
Diffusion of the Wyoming System
Rights to Interstate Waters
The California Groundwater Right
The New Mexican Groundwater Right
The Popularity of the New Mexican Right
Federal Assertions, States' Fears
The Appropriation Right and Its Critics