Water rights and the common wealth.

Environmental Law | March 22, 1996| | Copyright

Despite a century and a half of opportunity and mounting need, the dominant culture of the American West has not yet adapted to the West's defining physical feature--its aridity. Variable overall yet profound in many places, aridity marks the West as a land different from the humid East, and different too from England, the well-watered home of American legal culture.(1) As English-speaking settlers came to the West's dry places, they re-created ways of life that they knew, ways of life based on the assumption of plentiful clean water. When water ran short, as it did quickly ...

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