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Water Rights

The Colorado River in Arizona

Energy & Environment

One Small Step for Native American Water Rights

The Colorado River Indian Tribes have just won a victory—but there are a lot more controls that need to be lifted.

Tate Watkins | 1.20.2023 12:00 PM

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Water

California's Water Bureaucrats Are Making a Bad Drought Worse

Fifty percent of the state's water flows to the Pacific Ocean. Another 40 percent is used for agriculture. But it's average residents who are being forced to cut back.

Steven Greenhut | 5.20.2022 8:30 AM

Supreme Court

Supreme Court's First Opinion in an Argued Case Resolves Water Dispute Between Mississippi and Tennessee

The Chief Justice has assumed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's role as the fastest opinion writer.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.22.2021 10:49 AM

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Free Markets

In a Land of Scarce Water, Prices Should Be the Guide

The West needs markets in water, not allocations based on political considerations.

J.D. Tuccille | 8.20.2021 7:00 AM

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Environmentalism

'Environmental Justice' Starts by Providing More Water for Everyone

If Californians are serious about "environmental justice," they need to find ways to pump more water into the state's remarkable infrastructure systems.

Steven Greenhut | 9.25.2020 8:00 AM

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Water Rights

Mr. Smith Goes to Court

Friday A/V Club: The military sued Frank Capra, so he made a movie about it.

Jesse Walker | 10.13.2017 1:45 PM

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Environmental Protection Agency

How Obama's EPA Nearly Bankrupted John Duarte's Farm

A controversial rule on water pollution allowed the agency to micromanage private land use.

Alexis Garcia | 9.14.2017 1:05 PM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: All Wet

Charles Oliver | 1.5.2017 4:00 AM

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Water

Heavy Rainfall Is Easing California's Drought Crisis. A Free Market in Water Would Actually Solve the Problem.

Q&A with Reed Watson of the Property and Environment Research Center

Alex Manning | 5.21.2016 7:00 PM

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The Solution to California's Drought: A Free Market in Water

How government created an artificial shortage of our most essential resource.

Alex Manning | 5.12.2016 11:00 AM

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