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Training Course On The Greening Of Water Law: Implementing Environment-Friendly Principles In Contemporary Water Treaties And Laws, Paul Stanton Kibel Jan 2018

Training Course On The Greening Of Water Law: Implementing Environment-Friendly Principles In Contemporary Water Treaties And Laws, Paul Stanton Kibel

Publications

This class focuses on how international water law principles relate to the construction and operations of on-stream dams. Within this general focus, the following more specific topics are reviewed: (1) upstream/downstream nation rights and obligations relating to the impoundment and release of water from on-stream dams; (2) effect of on-stream dams on fisheries/aquatic habitat and fishers; (3) international environmental impact assessment obligations relating to the construction and operation of on-stream dams; (4) relation of hydro-electric dams to efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with energy production.


Wasted Water: Reasonable Use Law In 21st Century California, Golden Gate University School Of Law Jan 2015

Wasted Water: Reasonable Use Law In 21st Century California, Golden Gate University School Of Law

Environmental Law Symposia

Proceedings of 2015 California Water Law Symposium (WLS), Prepared by Center on Urban Environmental Law (CUEL) at Golden Gate University (GGU) School of Law.


Montana V. Wyoming: An Opportunity To Right The Course For Coalbed Methane Development And Prior Appropriation, Michelle Bryan Mudd May 2012

Montana V. Wyoming: An Opportunity To Right The Course For Coalbed Methane Development And Prior Appropriation, Michelle Bryan Mudd

Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal

Part I of this Article provides a brief background on the Yellowstone River Compact and the Montana v. Wyoming litigation. This part further explains the Special Master’s analysis of the CBM issue, as well as the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on improved irrigation efficiency. When viewed together, these decisions provide an important framework for determining how the parties’ regulation of CBM development should proceed. Part II then describes the magnitude of the CBM groundwater pumping issue and asserts that the posture of the Montana v. Wyoming case provides a unique opportunity not only to set Powder River Basin CBM development …


Proceedings Of The 2011 California Water Law Symposium (Wls). The End Of Paper Water: Natural Limits, Unlimited Demands And Reliable Supply, Paul S. Kibel, Anthony Austin, Melosa Granda, Luthien L. Niland Jan 2011

Proceedings Of The 2011 California Water Law Symposium (Wls). The End Of Paper Water: Natural Limits, Unlimited Demands And Reliable Supply, Paul S. Kibel, Anthony Austin, Melosa Granda, Luthien L. Niland

CUEL - Center for Urban Environmental Law

Proceedings of the 2011 California Water Law Symposium held at Golden Gate University School of Law on January 22, 2011.


Water Management Study: Upper Rio Grande Basin. Final Report. Report To The Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission, Ernie Niemi, Tom Mcguckin Jul 1997

Water Management Study: Upper Rio Grande Basin. Final Report. Report To The Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission, Ernie Niemi, Tom Mcguckin

Federal Documents

In September, 1996, the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission contracted with ECONorthwest to study the major problems associated with the growing competition for scarce water and related resources in the Upper Rio Grande Basin, and to make recommendations for appropriate federal policies and actions for addressing the problems. This is our final report. The study covers the area from the headwaters, in Colorado, to Ft. Quitman, Texas (see map).

In this report we identify problems and make recommendations associated with the growing competition for scarce water and related resources in the Upper Rio Grande Basin. Our definition of problems …


Toward A Drought-Proof California: Eliminating Barriers To The Use Of Recycled Water, Assembly Committee On Local Government Nov 1995

Toward A Drought-Proof California: Eliminating Barriers To The Use Of Recycled Water, Assembly Committee On Local Government

California Assembly

No abstract provided.


San Francisco Bay And The Delta, Assembly Committee On Water, Parks And Wildlife Apr 1989

San Francisco Bay And The Delta, Assembly Committee On Water, Parks And Wildlife

California Assembly

No abstract provided.


Public Trust Doctrine Applicable To Water Rights, Assembly Committee On Water, Parks And Wildlife Nov 1988

Public Trust Doctrine Applicable To Water Rights, Assembly Committee On Water, Parks And Wildlife

California Assembly

No abstract provided.


The San Joaquin River Parkway, Assembly Committee On Water, Parks And Wildlife Oct 1988

The San Joaquin River Parkway, Assembly Committee On Water, Parks And Wildlife

California Assembly

No abstract provided.


Informational Hearing On Kesterson Reservoir, Assembly Committee On Water, Parks And Wildlife May 1988

Informational Hearing On Kesterson Reservoir, Assembly Committee On Water, Parks And Wildlife

California Assembly

No abstract provided.


The Lower Sacramento Valley And Foothill Region's Consumptive Demand Upon Western Slope Sierra Nevada Watersheds, Senate Select Committee On The Sierra/Cascade/Klamath Watershed May 1987

The Lower Sacramento Valley And Foothill Region's Consumptive Demand Upon Western Slope Sierra Nevada Watersheds, Senate Select Committee On The Sierra/Cascade/Klamath Watershed

California Senate

No abstract provided.


New River Border Pollution, Assembly Select Committee On International Water Treatment And Reclamation May 1984

New River Border Pollution, Assembly Select Committee On International Water Treatment And Reclamation

California Assembly

No abstract provided.


Tijuana River Valley Border Pollution, Assembly Select Committee On International Water Treatment And Regulation Mar 1984

Tijuana River Valley Border Pollution, Assembly Select Committee On International Water Treatment And Regulation

California Assembly

No abstract provided.


A Guide To California Water Right Permits, California Water Resources Control Board Jan 1984

A Guide To California Water Right Permits, California Water Resources Control Board

California Agencies

No abstract provided.


California's Water Future, Assembly Committee On Water, Parks And Wildlife Jul 1982

California's Water Future, Assembly Committee On Water, Parks And Wildlife

California Assembly

No abstract provided.


Water Resources (Ab 2249-Bates) California Water Fund (Ab 2250-Bates), Assembly Committee On Water, Parks And Wildlife Dec 1981

Water Resources (Ab 2249-Bates) California Water Fund (Ab 2250-Bates), Assembly Committee On Water, Parks And Wildlife

California Assembly

No abstract provided.


Mono Lake, Assembly Committee On Water, Parks And Wildlife Nov 1981

Mono Lake, Assembly Committee On Water, Parks And Wildlife

California Assembly

No abstract provided.


Governor's Commission To Review California Water Rights Law: Final Report, Governor's Commission To Review California Water Rights Law Dec 1978

Governor's Commission To Review California Water Rights Law: Final Report, Governor's Commission To Review California Water Rights Law

California Agencies

No abstract provided.


Contract Between The State Of California Department Of Water Resources And The Metropolitan Water District Of Southern California For A Water Supply, Department Of Water Resources Feb 1973

Contract Between The State Of California Department Of Water Resources And The Metropolitan Water District Of Southern California For A Water Supply, Department Of Water Resources

California Agencies

Contract Between the State of California Department of Water Resources and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for a Water Supply, November 4, 1960 (As amended to February 1, 1973).