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Acquisition And Protection Of Water Supplies By Municipalities, Wilbert L. Ziegler
Acquisition And Protection Of Water Supplies By Municipalities, Wilbert L. Ziegler
Michigan Law Review
Among the prime functions of a municipal government is the furnishing of a potable supply of water for its inhabitants. In view of the increasing demand for water and the shortage of available supply, a number of problems have been or will be encountered by municipalities in fulfilling that function, apart from the problem of financing.
Law Of Percolating Waters, Jno B. Clayberg
Law Of Percolating Waters, Jno B. Clayberg
Michigan Law Review
Percolating waters are well understood as being underground waters. Underground waters have been from time immemorial divided into two general classes, namely: (a) flowing stream's, and (b) percolating waters. Percolating waters are divided by text writers into several distinct classes. No two text writers seem to have adopted the same classification. Such classifications are all more or less unimportant insofar as the application of the law is concerned. There cannot be any difference between percolating water which is diffuse and percolating water which reaches the channel of a stream or its sub-flow. All percolating water, unless detained by some natural …