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Water Right Lost for lack of Development
Publication year - 1989
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.1551-8833.1989.tb03283.x
Subject(s) - abandonment (legal) , appropriation , supreme court , water development , due diligence , water right , political science , law , right to development , law and economics , business , sociology , water resources , philosophy , linguistics , human rights , ecology , biology
The Supreme Court of Colorado ruled that the failure of a holder of a conditional water right to obtain a quadrennial finding of reasonable diligence in developing a proposed water appropriation constitutes abandonment of the right.