Title: Forging new rights in western waters /
Authors: Dunbar, Robert G.
Date: 1983
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press,
Physical description: xiii, 278 pages : map ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: K
Contents: The First Irrigations -- The Mormon Experience -- Farmers, Investors, and Ditches -- Construction by States -- National Reclamation -- Modification of a Property Right -- A New Property Right in Western Waters -- The Colorado System of Water-Right Enforcement -- Creating the Wyoming System -- Diffusion of the Wyoming System -- Rights to Interstate Waters -- The California Groundwater Right -- The New Mexican Groundwater Right -- The Popularity of the New Mexican Right -- Federal Assertions, States' Fears -- The Appropriation Right and Its Critics --
Subject headings (LCSH): Riparian rights--West (U.S.)--History.; Water rights--West (U.S.)--History.