Changing the river's course: western water policy reform

1996

Publications

Northwestern School of Law

Portland, Ore.

"Professor Getches concludes that traditional instruments of water policy in the West--the beneficial use requirement of the prior appropriation doctrine, the water projects that harnessed the river in the first place, and the historically unfulfilled ideal of watershed management--can be reformed and redirected to address many of the problems the river has suffered."

http://hdl.handle.net/10974/35