Ridenbaugh Press/Water Rights

Some fields of law and policy and business change only incrementally. Water rights law – the fundamental issue of who has water, who can use it, what they can use it for and how it can be transferred – moves with stunning speed, faster than a Class 5 rapids on a mountain river.

If you’re not subscribing to the National Water Rights Digest, you run the risk of being caught unawares – and where water is concerned, that’s an extravagant risk: Words like “liability” and “exposure” come into play.

If the people you do work with have water use interests, they’re counting on you to protect them.

Knowing your own state or locality isn’t enough. What happens in one affects law and policy and business in another:

· Groundwater pumping decisions in Florida can affect pumping in California.

· State/Tribal compacts in Montana serve as models for compacts in other states.

· Rulings on federal water rights in Idaho set precedent for decisions in Nevada.

· Suits in Kansas and Nebraska are watched and used in Georgia and Virginia.

· Water rights transfer agreements in California have become models for agreements in Arizona and Texas.

· Legislative actions in Texas serve as examples for legislation in Wyoming.

In fact, all of this these things have been happening, and are having an effect right now.

You think water rights questions don’t apply where you are?

Think again.

Water battles in the last few years have stretched to the northeast in New England, to the Great Lakes area, to rivers and basins in the South – almost everywhere in the United States. Around the world, for that matter.

We’re the only national monitor of water rights. Water quality, treatment and related issues we leave to others – the better to focus on water rights.

Since 1993, Ridenbaugh Press has provided subscribers the latest information on:

• water-related state legislative actions.
• updates on water rights litigation.
• status of ongoing water supply projects.
• news on court cases and adjudications across the country.
• updates on key staff changes in government agencies.
• the stories behind the headlines.

A subscription covers you in a multitude of ways.

You get the National Water Rights Digest, a concise monthly publication – available in print and email versions – packed with current articles, documents, maps, and charts on water rights throughout the United States.

But you also get much more.

• Our on-line water rights news database – searchable by state and topic. And browse our news blog at water.ridenbaugh.com
• Our water rights documents collection, also available on-line to subscribers.
• All past editions of the NWRD, available on line
• The National Water Rights Digest Directory – the new edition of the national directory of water rights people and organizations, planned for summer 2006 publication.
• And for a limited time for first-time subscribers, the last five years of the NWRD on CD – an instant reference.

Get on top of the water world today.

· Send us an email at stapilus@ridenbaugh.com

· Or sign up on the form at the upper left on this page.

· Pay by credit card through Paypal, at http://www.ridenbaugh.com/support.htm

· Or send a check to Ridenbaugh Press, P.O. Box 834, Carlton OR 97111.

Randy Stapilus,
Publisher

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