Sentences with phrase «water law»

There was a lot not to like in the federal water law that the president just signed, but some of the money in there is for additional flood control projects.

The most pragmatic approach, he thinks, is to build off existing water law while reforming its worst parts.

When your project or enterprise encounters water law issues, our attorneys can help.

Congress later exempted the practice from clean water laws.

Burges Salmon regularly advises on all aspects of NSIP and all issues of water law.

The Canadian Environmental Law Association also has a page here on water law resources.

Prior to joining the Winkler Institute as a Research Fellow, Ms. Hania held a position of Assistant Professor at the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan, where she taught courses in water law, international environmental law, environmental law and multi-party negotiation.

But he also understands Colorado water law — rights are precious, and sometimes more valuable even than the land to which they are attached.

A vestige of 139 - year - old water law pushes ranchers to use as much water as they possibly can, even during a drought.

Judge Fagg is the only Republican Senate candidate who understands Montana water law and argues for the Compact.

Her current work, in partnership with the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, matches indigenous water law with the framework of the new Water Sustainability Act.

«The way the current water law structure is, if they don't use it for the assigned use, they could lose the water right.»

Both educational activities featured Deidre Duncan, a lawyer and water law expert with the law firm of Hunton and Williams, who provided a legal analysis of the proposed rule and the negative economic impact the regulation would have on property owners nationwide; and Dr. Dave Sundig, an economics professor with U.C. Berkley, who provided a critique of the EPA's meager cost / benefit analysis conducted for the rulemaking.

They could keep those rights indefinitely, passing them on through generations or selling them, attached to the land, at great profit, as long as they constantly put the water to what most Western water laws refer to as «beneficial use.»

Even the most ardent supporters of such changes — people like Lochhead of Denver Water — admit water laws are probably too sensitive to be reformed any time soon.

The Federal Water Law already specifies that those potentially affected (are) «obligated within the framework of what is possible and reasonable to undertake suitable mitigation measures in protecting against the hazards of flooding and to reduce the damage thereof, in particular to design the use of properties to consider the possible deleterious implications that flooding may have on human beings, the environment or material assets.»

Gleick notes,» [F] ederal agencies given oversight over our drinking water have no authority over bottled water — a product never anticipated by the drafters of the original federal drinking water laws.»

Antique water laws,, common in Western states, currently make it illegal for individuals and businesses to collect rainwater.

As Arizona works toward new water laws, more should be done to bring transparency to the policy process and prioritize environmental flows, say members of the Sustainable Water Workgroup.5 months ago

University of Geneva, Faculty of Law, Certificate in International Water Law and Law of Transboundary Aquifers, 2016

Naman, Howell, Smith & Lee represents clients in matters involving water law on a regular basis.

Whether the water supply is sourced from a municipal or private water purveyor, or obtained privately from a surface water body, well, or spring, the water must be obtained and managed through the complex web of statutes, regulations, and court cases known as water law.

Now one of the worst droughts in state history is pushing legislators to reckon with its unwieldy water laws, especially one major oversight: California has been the only Western state without groundwater regulation — but now that looks set to change.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who has sought to stymie Trump administration efforts through legal challenges with fellow attorneys general in other states, pointed to his office's efforts to bolster federal clean water laws.

Still, aside from a 2007 temporary pact to divide the pain of river shortages between them, officials in the seven states have never renegotiated the original river compact or fundamentally changed the foundations of water law that lead to overuse.

«It's fundamental,» said Laura Ziemer, senior counsel for Trout Unlimited and a leading expert on water law.

ProPublica's «Killing the Colorado» series examines a 139 - year - old water law that pushes ranchers to use as much water as they possibly can, even during a drought

Ed summarizes relevant Indian history, Montana water law, court findings that establish precedent, the legislative process and the politics of the topic.

A National Clean Water Commission of blue - ribbon experts in law, engineering, sciences, health, technology, finance and economics to recommend new national goals to replace the tired and expired goals of current federal water laws, and a policy and business plan to implement them.

Davids holds a Bachelor of Arts from Queen's University, a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Ontario and a Master of Laws from the University of Dundee, Scotland, specialising in water law and policy.

The proposals would especially affect programs to address climate change and enforce clean air and water laws, they said.

The unit had originally been established in the wake of two scathing reports from the NSW Ombudsman which found the conduct of the department in enforcing the state's water laws was «unreasonable and otherwise wrong».

Adding to the problems, the states linked by reliance on the Colorado govern their water resources separately and have not standardized their water laws.

The term «water law» in the Colorado River basin has come to refer to a monstrous volume of federal statutes and agreements, court precedents and state laws and regulations that can differ from place to place and have changed incrementally over the years but are structured by the interstate agreements to divide the river.

But the river is in trouble, and water laws are one significant cause.

None of the antiquated parts of what across the entire basin is referred to loosely as «water law» play as much a role in stressing the water system — or seem as fixable — as the one known as «use it or lose it.»

The ability to link weather events to climate change could also strengthen plaintiffs» arguments that a disaster was foreseeable, according to Lindene Patton, a Washington - based lawyer at Earth and Water Law, LLC.

The nation's water laws are badly in need of overhaul.

Maes» latest proclamation on environment (upending a century of water law) is likely to terrify neighboring state governors, business executives, and real estate developers so that conservation seems a side issue.