Perspective
Feb. 11, 2017
Another chapter in California's water wars
If the Goleta Water District wants to enjoin Slippery Rock Ranch's 140-year practice of selling water to neighboring ranches, due process requires that Goleta notify those ranchers of the litigation. By Anthony T. Caso
Anthony T. Caso
Professor of Law
Chapman University, Fowler School of Law
1 University Dr Chapman
Orange , CA 92866-1005
Phone: (916) 601-1916
Fax: (916) 307-5164
McGeorge School of Law
Anthony is director of the Claremont Institute's Constitutional Jurisprudence Clinic at Chapman University, Fowler School of Law
California has had an unusually wet year so far, though a number of areas in the state remain in desperate need of additional water reserves. This demand will only elongate the ongoing war over water that has been waged in courtrooms and legislative chambers for as long as California has been a state. The discovery of gold may have started the rush to California, but people soon learned that the real gold was the water necessary...
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