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Water rights in Idaho follow the prior appropriation doctrine, meaning “first in time, first in right.” When water is scarce, senior water rights holders get their water first, and junior ...
In Idaho, the first person to use water — the senior user — has the right to use that water source before someone who seeks to put that water to use at a later time — the junior user.
Sooner or later, policymakers are going to have to reexamine the foundation of Idaho’s water law — the “doctrine of prior appropriation,” which says the person with the oldest water rights ...
Water right in water law is the right of a user to use water from a water source, e.g., a [1] river, stream, pond or source of groundwater. In areas with plentiful water and few users, such systems are generally not complicated or contentious.
Water is very scarce in the West and so must be allocated sparingly, based on the productivity of its use. The prior appropriation doctrine developed in the Western United States from Spanish (and later Mexican) civil law and differs from the riparian water rights that apply in the rest of the United States.
The most vexing thing about this year’s massive curtailment was that if you live in eastern Idaho, you see water everywhere you look. There’s still snow in the mountains. The canals all look full.
The Columbia Plateau ecoregion is a Level III ecoregion designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) encompassing approximately 32,100 square miles (83,139 km 2) [1] of land within the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
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