Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1997
Abstract
The American West, for the most part, is an arid place. The average annual precipitation in the seventeen western states is twenty-one inches, but in many places is far less. Often there is too little water to go around, even in places such as Oregon that are ommonly believed to be wet.' Water is valuable everywhere because it is indispensable; it is even more precious in the West because it is scarce.
Publication Title
Virginia Environmental Law Journal
Volume
16
First Page
363
Recommended Citation
Reed D. Benson,
Whose Water Is It? Private rights and public authority over reclamation project water,
16
Virginia Environmental Law Journal
363
(1997).
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https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facultyscholarship/338
