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Selling Reclamation Water Rights: A Case Study In Federal Subsidy Policy, Joseph L. Sax
Selling Reclamation Water Rights: A Case Study In Federal Subsidy Policy, Joseph L. Sax
Michigan Law Review
This situation raises some interesting questions about federal reclamation policy and about subsidy policy in general. Why should a program designed to give a needed service at reasonable rates evolve into one where the original recipients, at the end of their time of need, are also rewarded by the gift of a large capital asset? Moreover, why should that reward be given at the expense of their successors on the project, who, one would think, are equally the concern of the reclamation program? These are the questions ·with which this article will be concerned.
Waters And Watercourses - Riparian Rights In Streams Flowing Through Several States
Waters And Watercourses - Riparian Rights In Streams Flowing Through Several States
Michigan Law Review
A special master appointed by the Court after the filing of a bill by the state of Washington praying an injunction against the state of Oregon found that inhabitants of Oregon had been diverting water from the Walla Walla River, a non-navigable stream, by means of a dam for over fifty years for use in irrigating their lands which would otherwise be arid and had been for a long time pumping some nine thousand acre feet of water per annum from wells bored on their lands. The state of Washington claimed this diversion materially injured an irrigation project known as …
Waters And Water Courses - No Riparian Right In Montana, Evans Holbrook
Waters And Water Courses - No Riparian Right In Montana, Evans Holbrook
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Plaintiff owned lands through which a stream flowed; defendant, by virtue of an appropriation duly made, diverted all the water in the stream and used it for irrigation purposes. Plaintiff, claiming only as a riparian owner, sued to enjoin defendant's diversion of the stream on the ground that it was an invasion of riparian rights. Held, that the common law doctrine of riparian rights does not prevail in Montana, and that plaintiff's complaint does not state a cause of action.