AuthorJohnson, John W
TitleUnited States water law [electronic resource] : an introduction / John W. Johnson
Imprint Boca Raton, FL. : CRC Press, c2009
Connect tohttp://marc.crcnetbase.com/isbn/9781420086423
Descript xvii, 471 p. : ill., maps, forms

CONTENT

The division of authority between federal and state governments -- Allocation of interstate water rights -- Public rights to use surface waters -- Water ownership -- Water supply and uses -- Riparian rights -- Prior appropriation -- Groundwater -- Native American rights -- Environmental regulation -- Nuisance and tort law -- Social theory -- Louisiana and Hawaii water law -- The future of water resources in the United States -- Water corporations -- Reclamation -- Western state water systems and fees -- Classification of water bodies and types of precipitation -- Prominent federal agencies dealing with United States waters


SUBJECT

  1. Water rights -- United States
  2. Riparian rights -- United States
  3. Water -- Law and legislation -- United States
  4. Water resources development -- Law and legislation -- United States
  5. Water-supply -- United States
  6. Electronic books.