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Indian Water Rights Settlements and the Animas-la Plata Project: a Self-fulfilling Prophecy of Dependency

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Water is scarce.It is the most valuable resource in the West, and complex legal doctrines have developed over more than a century and a half to govern existing water rights and future water development.If we run short of water, everyone will suffer; everything will grind to a halt.We cannot lock our rivers up and take them out of use." 1 1.Charles Wilkinson, The First Half Century of Western Water Reform: Have We Kept Faith with the Rivers of the West?, 36 Env't.L. 1115, 1118-19 (2006) (emphasis added).2. See Pub.L. No. 100-585, § 2, 102 Stat.2973 (1988) (The agreement of 1986 preceded the Final Settlement Act.). 3. Id. § 2, 102 Stat.at 2973.

Source: The Mathematics Enthusiast

Author: Williams, Sidney Paulina

Institution: University of Colorado Boulder

Language: English

Topic: Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law

Subfield: Law

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Clean water and sanitation

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7082115267

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