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