Law of the Rio Chama
Publication Date
Fall 1996
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Despite the fact that the New Mexico legislature added a public welfare criterion to the water code over 10 years ago, the State Engineer Office has not addressed the application of the criterion by regulation and has only addressed public welfare briefly in a few a decisions. There is almost no case law in New Mexico addressing this issue. More and more participants, however, are raising public welfare in water rights protests. This paper addresses how the public welfare criterion has developed in western water law and proposes an approach for use of the criterion in New Mexico.
Publisher
Natural Resources Journal
Recommended Citation
Bokum, Consuelo. "Implementing the Public Welfare Requirement in New Mexico's Water Code." (1996). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/uc_rio_chama/6
