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Boston University School of Law

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Possible Solutions: Policy Tools To Achieve Flexibility To Meet New Conditions, Preliminary Thoughts For Coping With Future Droughts, Maria O'Brien Jan 1999

Possible Solutions: Policy Tools To Achieve Flexibility To Meet New Conditions, Preliminary Thoughts For Coping With Future Droughts, Maria O'Brien

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The following comments are premised on the author's experience with the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (Conservancy) in New Mexico and its endeavor to implement a water banking system. Background information about the Conservancy is helpful for an understanding of its efforts at water banking.


In Order To Have Water: Legal, Economic And Institutional Barriers To Water Reuse In Northern New England, Michael S. Baram, J. Raymond Miyares Jan 1981

In Order To Have Water: Legal, Economic And Institutional Barriers To Water Reuse In Northern New England, Michael S. Baram, J. Raymond Miyares

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The maintenance of adequate water supplies to meet increasing demand upon residential and industrial users in New England is now an urgent concern. Encouragement of water reuse is one of the ways in which water conservation can be implemented. This Article, synthesized by the authors from their technical report, examines current legal and institutional methods of promoting water reuse and conservation. They analyze their effectiveness and argue that legal and political reform is needed to achieve the ends of water conservation. I