California’s Water Rights System is Inequitable, Inadequate, and Possibly, About to Change
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 17, 2023
In practice, this means “water generally went to those with the most creative lawyers and engineers” as journalist Mark Arax writes in The King of California. The 1913 Water Commission Act established a Water Commission with the authority to permit new appropriative rights as of 1914, the Act’s effective date.
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