Water transfers in the West : efficiency, equity, and the environment / Committee on Western Water Management, Water Science and Technology Board, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, with the assistance of the Board on Agriculture, National Research Council
""Water Transfers in the West""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""THIRD PARTY IMPACTS AND OPPORTUNITIES""; ""ASSESSING WATER TRANSFERS AND THEIR EFFECTS""; ""THE ROLE OF LAW IN THE TRANSFER PROCESS""; ""CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Water Transfer Opportunities""; ""State and Tribal Authority""; ""The Costs of Transfers""; ""Area-of-Origin Impacts""; ""The Public Interest""; ""Environmental Impacts""; ""The Unique Interests of Indian and Hispanic Communities""; ""Transfers on Indian Reservations""; ""Water Salvage Laws""
""Water Quality-Water Quantity and Surface-Ground Water Interrelationships""""Federal Policy""; ""BALANCING EFFICIENCY AND EQUITY""; ""1 Pressures for Change ""; ""THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT""; ""WHY WATER TRANSFERS OCCUR IN THE WEST""; ""CHANGING DEMANDS""; ""SOME RECENT TRANSFERS""; ""TYPES OF WATER TRANSFER OPPORTUNITIES""; ""Water Leases""; ""Water Banks""; ""Dry Year Option Arrangements""; ""THE CASE FOR TRANSFERS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Third Party Impacts and Opportunities ""; ""PROTECTING THIRD PARTIES""; ""RURAL COMMUNITIES""; ""Economic and Fiscal Impacts""
""Environmental Effects of Retiring Irrigated Farmland""""A Cautionary Note on Area-of-Origin Protection""; ""AVAILABILITY OF WATER FOR AGRICULTURE""; ""ETHNIC COMMUNITIES""; ""TRIBES AS SOVEREIGN GOVERNMENTS""; ""ECOSYSTEMS""; ""INSTREAM FLOWS AND RELATED BENEFITS""; ""WATER QUALITY""; ""URBAN INTERESTS""; ""FEDERAL TAXPAYERS""; ""OPPORTUNITIES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 The Role of Law in the Transfer Process ""; ""STATE WATER ALLOCATION LAWS""; ""The No Injury Rule""; ""Historical Use Limitation""; ""Appurtenancy Restrictions""; ""Basin-of-Origin Protection""; ""Public Interest Review""
""Instream Flow Protection""""Water Salvage Laws""; ""OTHER STATE LAWS""; ""Water Quality""; ""Land Use""; ""Environmental Impact""; ""Soil Conservation""; ""FEDERAL RECLAMATION LAW""; ""FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS""; ""FEDERAL AND INDIAN RESERVED RIGHTS""; ""The Winters Doctrine""; ""Application to Federal Lands""; ""Priority of Reserved Rights""; ""Quantification of Reserved Rights""; ""Transferability of Indian Reserved Rights""; ""SPECIAL DISTRICT LAWS AND STATE LAW RESTRAINTS""; ""OPTIONS FOR IMPROVING WATER LAW AND POLICY""; ""Public Interest Review Processes""; ""Impact Assessment""
""Comprehensive Planning""""Judicial Public Trust Doctrine""; ""Clean Water Act, Section 404""; ""Ad Hoc Negotiation""; ""Other Legislation""; ""REFERENCES""; ""4 Assessing Water Transfers and Their Effects: An Introduction to the Case Studies ""; ""ELEMENTS OF THE EVALUATION SYSTEM""; ""Transfer Characteristics""; ""Third Party Interests""; ""Nature of Third Party Effects""; ""INTRODUCTION TO THE CASE STUDIES""; ""CRITICAL ISSUES""; ""Area-of-Origin Protection""; ""Instream Uses""; ""REFERENCES""
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