The Colorado River: One of the West’s Most Important Resources
The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers in the US. Read about some of its features, history-making law, and the threat of drought and climate change.
Category: Research and Legal News
PHOENIX, May 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy, a center of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, has released a comprehensive, peer-reviewed map of the Colorado...
Arizona | Safe Yield Not So Great, Reports Morrison Institute
ASU's Morrison Institute for Public Policy has published its report titled "The Myth of Safe Yield," raising challenges to the State's 40-year Groundwater Management Act. The report is co-authored...
The Central Arizona Project -- or CAP -- is an aquaduct that serves about 80% of Arizona's population. Construction started in 1973 and the canal opened 20 years later. CAP is offering a free...
9th Circuit opinion on federal reserved right to groundwater
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Native Americans and others claiming federal reserved water rights have a right to groundwater under their lands, upending almost a century of water...