Water rights laws in the nineteen western states, Vol. 1

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CONTENTS xix Interrelationships of the Dual Water Rights Systems...............200 A Century of Conflict and Adjustment .....................200 Reasons for the Conflict .............................200 Some Features of the Conflict .........................202 Purpose of use of water ...........................202 Sources of conflict...............................202 Results in the arid States...........................202 Results in the other States..........................203 Recourse of the appropriator where riparian rights attached to all the water ..............................203 Modification of riparian principles ....................204 The question of abrogating riparian rights ...............204 The Status in Summary: By States ........................206 States in Which There Generally Are No Interrelationships.......206 Alaska .........................................206 California.......................................207 Kansas.........................................210 Nebraska .......................................211 North Dakota ....................................213 Oklahoma ......................................215 Oregon ........................................218 South Dakota ....................................220 Texas .........................................221 Washington .....................................223 Chapter 7 - APPROPRIATION OF WATER...................226 Definitions ..........................................226 Waters Subject to Appropriation ...........................227 Statutory Declarations ................................227 All Waters ......................................227 . Stream Waters....................................228/ Natural Streams ..................................228 Multiple Classifications of Watercourses ...................229 Navigable Waters ..................................229 Ground Waters ...................................230 All ground waters ...............................230 Ground water body with ascertainable boundaries ..........231 Definite underground stream and underflow of surface stream....................................231 Miscellaneous ....................................231 Previous Court Declarations.............................232 Stream Water Appropriative Rights......................232 Alaska .......................................232