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We set up this blog to discuss issues surrounding universal access to safe, physically accessible, sufficient and affordable clean water. These issues include, but are not limited to: 1) whether access to clean water should be enshrined as a fundamental human right; 2) how to respond to the increasingly prevalent treatment of water as a commodity rather than a public good (corporate social responsibility and water); 3) clean water as global health issue; 4) clean water as a poverty issue; 5) clean water as a global security issue; 6) clean water as a gender issue.

Sunday, September 28, 2008

ABA Journal: GULP - Litigation Won't End the Battles Over Depleted Water in Several Regions of the US

http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/gulp/

ABA Journal profiles three hot spots in the US water-access debate -

1) The Colorado Basin (with a good introduction to the Colorado River Compact between California, Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico and the Western US doctrine of prior appropriation ["first in time, first in right"]

2) The Great Lakes (see previous post - Congress has just passed the Great Lakes Compact)

3) Apalachicola Basin - Georgia, Florida and Alabama are fighting it out over Georgia's claims to set aside 20% of the water in Lake Lanier.

Good discussion also of East Coast doctrine of riparian rights and how it has been evolving into "regulated riparianism" where water is seen as a public good that hte state may reuglate.
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