Op-Ed: In drought-stricken California, who owns water rights can still be a mystery

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Op-Ed: In drought-stricken California, who owns water rights can still be a mystery (via latimesopinion)

As we careen deeper into drought, California will face increasing impacts to urban and agricultural economies, rivers and forests, and wildlife.

Most residents assume that because their home water use is metered we would understand water use in the state as a whole, and that water management is a routine matter. This could hardly be further from the truth.. Further, most essential documents are inaccessible, so we simply don’t know who can legally use water at a given time and place. Here in the land of Google, basic water information remains trapped, obscuring water management.

Water rights help determine who may use water, when, where and for what purpose. The right to divert and use water is mediated by the state’s responsibility to protect public health and the environment. In the absence of accessible legal information, neither regulators nor water users can have clarity about their options.

 

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