Environmental Water Rights Transfers: A Review of State Laws
Publisher
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Date
2015-8-31
This report was prepared in cooperation with, and was funded by, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), with the goal of providing an assessment of the legal regimes for reviewing and approving environmental water transfers in twelve western states. The ability to transfer, change, or dedicate an existing water right under the prior appropriation system to instream uses is a relatively new legal tool. Legislatures in western states first passed statutes authorizing and governing these transfers in the late 1980s. As part of its overall western water program, NFWF engaged with Water in the West to assess the scope, status, and functioning of these laws in different western states.
Citation
Julia Forgie et al., Environmental Water Rights Transfers: A Review of State Laws, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment (2015).