The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/25/7284/
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Indian tribes exercising water rights
USA Today
02/25/08
For decades, ranchers and farmers across the West have tapped into rivers and streams on or near Indian reservations. Now, as drought conditions plague big parts of the region, they’re concerned their access to those sources could dry up. Although the U.S. Supreme Court gave tribes the primary rights to streams on their reservations in 1908, until recently, 19 tribes in the West had not exercised those rights. This year, tribes in Montana, New Mexico, Idaho, Nevada and California are on the verge of securing their claims...
http://tinyurl.com/2fm7z7
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maude+Barlow
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Indian tribes exercising water rights
USA Today
02/25/08
For decades, ranchers and farmers across the West have tapped into rivers and streams on or near Indian reservations. Now, as drought conditions plague big parts of the region, they’re concerned their access to those sources could dry up. Although the U.S. Supreme Court gave tribes the primary rights to streams on their reservations in 1908, until recently, 19 tribes in the West had not exercised those rights. This year, tribes in Montana, New Mexico, Idaho, Nevada and California are on the verge of securing their claims...
http://tinyurl.com/2fm7z7
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Maude+Barlow
rudkla - 25. Feb, 23:07
