Download or read book Western Water Law in the Age of Reallocation written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marketing Western Water written by Olen Paul Matthews and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reallocating water is a politically sensitive issue in the western United States. Changes from agricultural uses to urban or environmental uses are occurring, but the process tends to polarize competing water users, thus creating barriers to reallocation. Other barriers are inherent in the appropriation doctrine, and some barriers exist because of poor data or inadequate science. These barriers could be more easily overcome and the process made less political if the impacts of change were better known. Water users frequently resist change because of the uncertainty change brings. The biophysical and behavioral models currently used to predict the impacts of change do not account for spatial complexity or information uncertainty in ways that overcome legal and other barriers to reallocation. An integrated approach that couples a spatial and temporal framework to biophysical, institutional, and behavioral science can reduce uncertainty. Process based geographic information systems can fill that role by allowing impacts to be assessed more accurately. A better understanding of impacts will potentially facilitate reallocation decisions in a water market setting.
Download or read book Reallocating Western Water written by Larry B. Morandi and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Use Conflicts in the West written by Marca Weinberg and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflicts among water users still occur in the American West. Environmentalists, who want water to be left in the rivers to preserve threatened species, compete with urban & agricultural users for the West's limited water resources. Native American water rights are also receiving more attention. This study analyzes the policy tools slated for use in California, estimates the costs of those reforms to agriculture in the state, & discusses the implications of using those policy tools in the rest of the West. Policy changes introduced in California could serve as models for changes throughout the West. Charts & tables.
Download or read book Western Water Resources written by K Boulding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 14 proceedings for the Symposium on western water resources: coming problems and the policy alternatives, held in Denver, CO, USA, on the 27 Sep 1979.
Download or read book Water And Agriculture In The Western U S written by Gary Weatherford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major questions facing the western U.S. is whether irrigation water can be conserved and reallocated to help meet increasing nonagricultural water demands. This book, based on interdisciplinary research in several states, identifies and analyzes the legal, political, economic, and social issues involved in a "conserve-and transfer" strategy. After providing an overview and policy framework for considering the role of conservation in water management, the authors use case studies to illustrate, for example, why water conservation is not a neutral policy or principle (demonstrating how other legitimate values can be adversely affected by a single-purpose pursuit of conservation); the various options available for conservation; how reallocation occurs in market transactions; and the legal restrictions on the sale of conserved surplus water. Although formal market mechanisms are found to be rudimentary or lacking in most areas of the West, the authors contend that more proficient markets will evolve to measure the economic value of agricultural water. They conclude that a "conserve-and-transfer" strategy is selectively workable through the use of incentives, but that a number of tradeoffs, social concerns, and institutional constraints, which have not been adequately recognized to date, will have to be dealt with by policymakers if the strategy is to have wider application.
Download or read book Water Transfers in the West written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West faces many challenges, but none is more important than the challenge of managing its water. This book examines the role that water transfers can play in allocating the region's scarce water resources. It focuses on the variety of third parties, including Native Americans, Hispanic communities, rural communities, and the environment, that can sometimes be harmed when water is moved. The committee presents recommendations to guide states, tribes, and federal agencies toward better regulation. Seven in-depth case studies are presented: Nevada's Carson-Truckee basin, the Colorado Front Range, northern New Mexico, Washington's Yakima River basin, central Arizona, and the Central and Imperial valleys in California. Water Transfers in the West presents background and current information on factors that have encouraged water transfers, typical types of transfers, and their potential negative effects. The book highlights the benefits that water transfers can bring but notes the need for more third-party representation in the processes used to evaluate planned transfers.
Download or read book Farmers Fish Tribal Power and Poker written by Barbara A. Cosens and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The law governing allocation of water in the western United States has changed little in over 100 years. During that period both population and our understanding of the natural systems served by rivers have mushroomed. To meet growing urban needs and to reverse the environmental cost extracted from natural systems, the focus in water policy both globally and in the West is away from the twentieth century emphasis on water development and toward improvements in management, efficiency, and scientific understanding. These efforts are frequently at odds with the rigid law governing water allocation, leaving water policymakers and managers to find alternative routes to introduce sufficient flexibility into water management to address changing needs and values. In the effort to address modern problems, negotiation plays an increasingly important role. Basin-wide collaborative processes aimed at resolving allocation, restoration, water quality, and jurisdictional disputes are taking place on almost every major water basin in the West. The current ad hoc approach has given rise to a variety of processes thus providing a fertile ground for testing concepts for change. The growing use of negotiation to solve problems not adequately addressed by existing law may very well herald a new era for water distribution and management in the West, one tailored to the problems faced by specific water basins and structured around governance that mimics basin boundaries. This is Part II of a three Part series on the settlement of Native American water rights. In this part the author looks at settlement in the Great Basin where the threat of reallocation of water to meet the needs of endangered species and growing urban needs in the Truckee River Basin of California and Nevada gave rise to a negotiated plan governing operation of storage on the heavily developed river. By introducing flexible management to existing infrastructure, the Truckee River negotiations are overcoming substantial barriers to reallocation of water.
Download or read book Moving the West s Water to New Uses written by University of Colorado, Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center. Summer Program and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Western Water Laws and Irrigation Return Flow written by George Radosevich and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate written by Kathleen A. Miller and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate addresses the current challenges facing western water planners and policy makers in the United States and considers strategies for managing water resources and related risks in the future. Written by highly-regarded experts in the industry, the book offers a wealth of experience, and explains the physical, socioeconomic, and institutional context for western water resource management. The authors discuss the complexities of water policy, describe the framework for water policy and planning, and identify many of the issues surrounding the subject. A provocative examination of policy issues surrounding western water resources, this book: Considers the implications of natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change for the region’s water resources, and explains limitations on the predictability of local-scale changes Stresses linkages between climate patterns and weather events, and related hydrologic impacts Describes the environmental consequences of historical water system development and the challenges that climate change poses for protection of aquatic ecosystems Examines coordination of drought management by local, state and national government agencies Includes insights on planning for climate change adaptation from case studies across the western United States Discusses the challenges and opportunities in water/energy/land system management, and its prospects for developing climate change response strategies Presents evidence of changes in water scarcity and flooding potential in the region and identifies a set of adaptation strategies to support the long-term sustainability of irrigated agriculture and urban communities Draws upon Colorado’s experience in defining rights for surface and tributary groundwater use to explain potential conflicts and challenges in establishing fair and effective coordination of water rights for these resources Assesses the role of policy in driving flood losses Explores policy approaches for achieving equitable and environmentally responsible planning outcomes despite multiple sources of uncertainty Water Policy and Planning in a Variable and Changing Climate describes patterns of water availability, existing policy problems and the potential impacts of climate change in the western United States, and functions as a practical reference for the student or professional invested in water policy and management.
Download or read book Drought Management in a Changing West written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference was organized in response to concerns about western water & natural resources mgmt. & the region's apparent growing vulnerability to extended periods of water shortage. Includes papers presented during plenary sessions, preconf. workshop summaries, a summary report from the working group sessions, & a plan of action for drought mgmt. in the West. Covers: ecological & environmental concerns; river basin mgmt.; energy; fish & wildlife mgmt.; mitigation; planning & policy; urban water supplies, virtual drought models, etc.
Download or read book Western Water Law in the Age of Reallocation March 11 12 1991 Tucson Arizona written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking Western Water Policy written by Larry B. Morandi and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moving Western Water at Whose Cost written by Larry B. Morandi and published by National Conference of State. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Changing Scene in the American West written by Theodore M. Schad and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
