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East is West and West is West: Have the twain met?
Author(s) -
Cahill Thomas E.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1982.tb04938.x
Subject(s) - american west , doctrine , appropriation , riparian zone , geography , law , political science , history , ethnology , philosophy , ecology , epistemology , habitat , biology
States whose water use laws are based on the riparian doctrine are increasingly aware of the limitations of this ancient common law. These states should consider some of the advantages of the prior appropriation doctrines used in the semiarid West.