The largest dam removal project is moving forward on the Klamath River in California and Oregon. Tribal nations there have fought for decades to protect native fish runs and the ecology of the river.
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By a narrow margin, the Supreme Court has ruled against the Navajo Nation in a case over water rights in the drought-stricken US Southwest.
Agreements negotiated a century ago to share water on Western rivers among states are showing their age in a time of water scarcity.
A Western scholar proposes allocating water from the Colorado River based on percentages of its actual flow instead of fixed amounts that exceed what’s there – and including tribes this time.
States, including Colorado, restrict the use of rain barrels. A water law scholar says a better way to conserve is reduce waste from big – and powerful – water users.
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Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Associate Professor of Environmental and Natural Resources Law, University of Oregon
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Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Utah
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Professor of Native American Studies, University of California, Davis
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Archivist, Water Resources Archive, Colorado State University
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Assistant Professor of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology and California Trout-UC Davis Coldwater Fish Scientist, University of California, Davis
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Regents Professor Emeritus and Morris K. Udall Professor of Law & Public Policy Emeritus, University of Arizona