Marketing water rights

Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 52-55

  Macdonnell, Lawrence J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Stewardship Initiatives   (United States)

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References (14)

1. Although free-flowing water in its natural state in a lake or stream is not owned, water can be transformed into personal property through containment and use. Thus, for example, if someone has appropriation rights to bottle and sell water, the bottled water becomes the personal property of whoever legally possesses it.
2. Probably the best single-volume summary of American water law principles is A. Dan Tarlock, Law of Water Rights and Resources (Deerfield, IL: Clark Boardman, 1988).
3. Arthur S. DeVany et al., "A Property System for Market Allocation of the Electromagnetic Spectrum: a Legal-engineering Study." Stanford Law Review 21 (1969), p. 1499.
4. Samuel C. Wiel, Water Rights in the Western States, 3rd ed. (San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Co., 1911).
5. L.J. MacDonnell, "Transferring Water Uses in the West," Oklahoma Law Review 43 (1990), pp. 119-130.
6. L.J. MacDonnell, "Transferring Water Uses in the West," Oklahoma Law Review 43 (1990), pp. 119-130, Ibid.
7. A description of the Colorado process is provided by L.J. MacDonnell. "Changing Uses of Water in Colorado: Law and Policy," Arizona Law Review 31 (4)(1989), pp.783-816.
8. L. Rice and M.D. White, Engineering Aspects of Water Law (New York: John Wiley, 1987).
9. L.J. MacDonnell et al., The Water Transfer Process as a Management Option for Meeting Changing Water Demands (Boulder, CO: Natural Resources Law Center. 1990).
10. A notable exception was the battle over Mono Lake, a unique inland sea 250 miles (400 kilometers) north of Los Angeles. Concerned citizens successfully stopped Los Angeles from diverting water from streams feeding into Mono Lake by arguing that the city's actions were harming the public trust. See John Hart's Storm over Mono: The Mono Lake Battle and the California Water Future (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996).
11. Natural Research Council, Water Transfers in the West, p. 4.
12. Rodney T. Smith, Trading Water: An Economic and Legal Framework for Water Marketing (Washington, DC: Council of State Policy & Planning Agencies. 1988).
13. H.O. Carter et al., eds., Sharing Scarcity: Gainers and Losers in Water Marketing (Davis, CA: University of California Agricultural Issues Center, 1994).
14. L.J. MacDonnell, "Water Banks: Untangling the Gordian Knot of Western Water," Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute 41 (1995), pp. 22-1 to 22-63.