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Groundwater Law, The San Luis Valley, And Climate Change, Rachel Grabenstein
Groundwater Law, The San Luis Valley, And Climate Change, Rachel Grabenstein
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A vast region of the western United States is in the grips of the first climate change-induced megadrought observed in the past 1,200 years.
This paper explores how climate change and the current groundwater legal regimes interact in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. The Valley was chosen as a case study because it is an example of a community that introduced voluntary measures to address the overuse of groundwater. This paper examines how those measures might have been sufficient if not for the additional challenge of climate change.
This paper will first explain the history of water management in the Valley. …