Administrative/Regulatory,
Environmental & Energy
Jun. 19, 2015
User's guide to California water rights
Environmental lawyer Kathryn Oehlschlager provides a user's guide to California's priority system, curtailment, voluntary cutback and mandatory reductions.
Much editorial space has been devoted of late to stories about surface water - water from lakes, rivers and streams - and who has a right to use it, who is using too much of it, and who is being hardest hit by the current extreme scarcity of it. The regulatory plot continues to thicken: Last week, the state water board ordered senior water rights holders to stop diverting surface water for the first time since the 1970s, bringing the total number...
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