Source: https://www.modrall.com/2015/06/19/indian-reserved-water-rights-groundwater-included/
Timestamp: 2019-04-23 15:56:11+00:00

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The Coachella Valley Water District and the Desert Water Agency have petitioned the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to appeal the question of whether the Tribe has a federal reserved right to groundwater. The Tribe and the United States opposed the petition.
Modrall Sperling attorneys are experienced advising tribes, pueblos, state and local governments, and business entities on Native American water rights.
1. Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564 (1908).
2. Cappaert v. United States, 426 U.S. 128, 138 (1976).
4. In re the General Adjudication of All Rights to Use Water in the Gila River System and Source, 989 P.2d 739, 745, 747-48 (Ariz. 1999) (recognizing groundwater rights); Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes v. Stults, 59 P.3d 1093, 1099 (Mont. 2002) (same); Tweedy v. Texas Co., 286 F. Supp. 383, 385 (D. Mont 1968) (same); Gila River Pima-Maricopa Indian Cmty. v. United States, 695 F.2d 559, 561 (Fed. Cir. 1982) (same); United States v. Washington Dep’t of Ecology, 375 F. Supp. 2d 1050, 1058 (W.D. Wash. 2005) (recognizing that Winters rights include groundwater rights).
5. In re Big Horn River System, 753 P.2d 76, 99 (Wyo. 1988), aff’d by an equally divided court, Wyoming v. United States, 492 U.S. 406 (1989).

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