Government,
Environmental & Energy
Feb. 18, 2020
Voluntary agreements will avoid years of disputes over Bay-Delta
Water litigation often involves decades of conflict. Judicial and administrative litigation about the American, mainstem San Joaquin and Yuba Rivers, as well as the Antelope Valley and Santa Maria groundwater basins, consumed over a decade each.
"Water litigation is a weed that flowers in the arid West," declared Judge William Fletcher of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2001. United States v. Orr Ditch Company, 256 F.3d 935, 940 (9th Cir. 2001). When water litigation sprouts, it is especially hardy, often involving decades of conflict. Judicial and administrative litigation about the A...
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