Colorado River Basin Environmental Water Transfers Scorecard
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The voluntary transfer of water rights (or portions of water rights) to environmental uses (including streamflows, wetlands, and aquatic species) has proven to be an effective means of restoring aquatic species and ecosystems in some western states. While these environmental water transfers are being used with increasing frequency, state laws require a review of any changes to a water right, and the legal frameworks in western states vary considerably. As a result, the legal scope of environmental transfers substantially differs from state to state, as does the burden of getting those transfers legally approved. The Environmental Water Transfer Scorecard uses a framework based on existing research to assess the laws and policies of each Colorado River Basin state related to environmental water rights transfers, and in particular, the extent to which their laws and policies facilitate such transactions. This effort was undertaken by Stanford’s Water in the West program in collaboration with AMP Insights and other experts.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | March 28, 2017 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Szeptycki, Leon |
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| Author | Pilz, David |
| Sponsor | Stanford Water in the West, a program of the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University. |
| Sponsor | Walton Family Foundation. |
Subjects
| Subject | water rights |
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| Subject | water law |
| Subject | watershed health |
| Subject | water allocation |
| Genre | Article |
Bibliographic information
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/rr649dj2687 |
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- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
Preferred citation
- Preferred Citation
- Szeptycki, Leon and Pilz, David. (2017). Colorado River Basin Environmental Water Transfers Scorecard. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/rr649dj2687
Collection
Water in the West Reports and Working Papers
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