United States water law an introduction

• Main Author: Johnson, John W.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c2009.
• Subjects: Water rights > United States.; Riparian rights > United States.; Water > Law and legislation > United States.; Water resources development > Law and legislation > United States.; Water-supply > United States.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781420086423
• Physical Description: xvii, 471 p. : ill., maps, forms.

Table of Contents:

• 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.