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out-dated water rights laws

out-dated water rights laws

Special Supplements. The notion of "first in time, first in right" has persisted even as the need for water has exploded in urban areas that sprang up long after most water rights were distributed and therefore rank lowest in priority. None of the antiquated parts of what across the entire basin is referred to loosely as "water law" play as much a role in stressing the water system — or seem as fixable — as the one known as "use it or lose it. A broad range of Southern Nevada players with conflicting interests own water rights in the aquifer. Hockaday, S. Groundwater remained unregulated until , when the state passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, which is intended to combat widespread problems of overpumping. Under the McCarran Amendment, 43 U.

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