Reasonable Use Archives

May 22, 2024

A single claim involving the Endangered Species Act remained intact. By Alan Riquelmy, Courthouse News Service Three California companies pushing...

COMMENTARY: Growing food is essential, reasonable use of water

Ag Alert

Agriculture Commentary

July 21, 2021

By Chris Scheuring, California Farm Bureau Federation Amid historic heat and drought, California’s rivers and creeks dwindled early this year....

AG ALERT: Farmers face water rights curtailments

Ag Alert

Policy and regulation

June 23, 2021

By Christine Souza, Ag Alert The California priority water rights system is being put to the test, as state regulators...

FEATURE: How dynamic are property rights in water?

Maven

Best of the Notebook Climate change Notebook News and Features Water rights and water law

October 21, 2020

Professor Holly Doremus is a leading scholar and teacher in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, and law...

EXPLAINER: Water rights 101

Maven

Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Water rights and water law

June 3, 2020

California water law is complex, governed by both state and federal law, part property law and part environmental law. The...

LOCALIZING CALIFORNIA WATERS: Erik Ekdahl on Water Management in the Uncertain Future

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation Water rights and water law

August 14, 2019

Water management in California has always been challenging, with the state’s variable climate that alternates between drought and floods that...

CALIFORNIA WATER POLICY CONFERENCE: Reasonable Use or Waste: A Developing Dichotomy

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation Water rights and water law

May 8, 2019

Panel discussion explores the evolution of the doctrine of reasonable use and considers how the doctrine will, or will not,...

PANEL: Legal issues associated with water conservation mandates

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

January 10, 2018

As the legislature contemplates how to “Make Conservation a California Way of Life”, a panel discusses some of the legal...

CA WATER POLICY CONFERENCE: Water Rights in an Era of “Permanent” Conservation Mandates: Are Reports of Their Death Greatly Exaggerated?

Maven

Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

June 14, 2017

By complying with a state-directed water budget formula, will agencies be forced to strand their water rights or infrastructure investments?...

Guest commentary: Using the Reasonable Use Doctrine to restrict riparian water use

Guest Contributor

Commentary

May 6, 2015

Commentary by Craig Wilson, the first Delta Watermaster and former Chief Counsel to State Water Board: The Governor recently stated...

California Water Law Symposium: The Role of Reasonable Use in the Russian River Frost Protection Litigation

Maven

Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Water rights and water law

April 8, 2015

A panel of lawyers discusses the appeals court ruling upholding the State Water Resources Control Board’s authority to regulate diversions...

California Water Law Symposium: Harrison “Hap” Dunning and John Leshy on California’s Reasonable Use Law

Maven

Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features Water rights and water law

April 7, 2015

Lawyers discuss the history and importance of reasonable use law, and ponder its future use The California Water Law Symposium,...