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Perspective

Oct. 24, 2009

Water Districts, Armed To Protect Water Rights

Roderick Walston and Robert Sawyer of Best Best & Krieger present remedies for when the government reduces contracted-for water supplies.

NATURAL RESOURCES

By Roderick Walston and Robert Sawyer

As Congress passes laws that make more water available for the environment and less for cities and farmers, questions arise whether the cities and farmers have any legal remedies to protect their rights - especially rights based on contracts with the federal government. If, for example, the federal government agrees to deliver water to a water district and later reduces deliveries in order to bene...

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