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Some fields of law and policy and business change only
incrementally. Water rights law – the fundamental issue of who has water, who
can use it, what they can use it for and how it can be transferred – moves with
stunning speed, faster than a Class 5 rapids on a mountain river.
If you’re not subscribing to the National
Water Rights Digest, you run the risk of being caught unawares
– and where water is concerned, that’s an extravagant risk: Words like
“liability” and “exposure” come into play.
If the people you do work with have
water use interests, they’re counting on you to protect them.
Knowing your own state or locality isn’t
enough. What happens in one affects law and policy
and business in another:
· Groundwater pumping
decisions in Florida can affect pumping in California.
· State/Tribal compacts in
Montana serve as models for compacts in other states.
· Rulings on federal water
rights in Idaho set precedent for decisions in Nevada.
· Suits
in Kansas and Nebraska are watched and used in Georgia and Virginia.
· Water rights transfer
agreements in California have become models for agreements in Arizona and
Texas.
· Legislative actions in Texas serve as examples for legislation in
Wyoming.
In fact, all of this these things have been
happening, and are having an effect right now.
You think water
rights questions don’t apply where you are?
Think
again.
Water battles in the last few years have stretched to the
northeast in New England, to the Great Lakes area, to rivers and basins in the
South – almost everywhere in the United States. Around the world, for that
matter.
We’re the only national monitor of water
rights. Water quality, treatment and related issues
we leave to others – the better to focus on water rights.
Since 1993,
Ridenbaugh Press has provided subscribers the latest information on:
- water-related
state legislative actions.
- updates
on water rights litigation.
- status
of ongoing water supply projects.
- news
on court cases and adjudications across the country.
- updates
on key staff changes in government agencies.
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the stories behind the headlines.
A subscription
covers you in a multitude of ways.
You get the National Water Rights Digest,
a concise monthly publication – available in print and email versions – packed
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But you also get
much more.
- Our
on-line water rights news database – searchable by state and topic. And
browse our news blog at water.ridenbaugh.com
- Our
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- All
past editions of the NWRD, available on line
- The
National Water Rights Digest Directory – the new edition of the
national directory of water rights people and organizations, planned for
summer 2006 publication.
- And
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Randy Stapilus,
Publisher
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