Public's Water Resource - Articles on Water Law, History, and Culture, Second Edition Out of Stock

 

Author:  Justice Greg Hobbs
Publisher: CBA-CLE Books
Publication Date: 2010
Page Count: 396
Trim Size: 7.5 x 10-inch format
Format: Soft-cover book
 
 This book is the product of Justice Hobbs' 34 years of experience as a water and environmental attorney (23 years) and justice of the Colorado Supreme Court (11) years.
 
The Public's Water Resource is an invaluable compilation of articles and speeches written by Justice Hobbs about how:
  • The ancient people of Mesa Verde and the Peruvian highlands coped with cyclical drought and flood through water works construction from 200 B.C. to the 1500s;
  • The climate of the Colorado River Basin has shaped the Colorado River Compact and its 85 years of implementation;
  • The great river runner John Wesley Powell continues to influence western water law and policy;
  • Colorado water law has changed and adapted from irrigation, municipal, and industrial use to instream flows and kayak courses over a period of 145 years;
  • 2000 years of water law, history, and culture in the Americas suggests twenty basic elements of a good water policy;
  • Water education has become a central feature of civic education in the Americas; and,
  • How water quality law protects water use rights.
 
The book also includes new water poems by Justice Hobbs, plus photographs and diagrams of ancient and contemporary waterworks, landscapes, and hydrographs.
Table of Contents
 
Preface
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Seeing the Book of Days
Colorado Judicial Merit Selection — A Well-Deserved 40th
Anniversary Celebration
Two Story House
Inca Water Culture
People at Work with Water is Community Work
The Role of Climate on Water Institutions in the Western Americas
Colorado Water Law: An Historical Overview
Colorado’s 1969 Adjudication and Administration Act: Settling In
A Decade of Colorado Supreme Court Water Decisions, 1996-2006
Overview of Western Water Adjudications: A Judge’s Perspective
Water Rights Protection in Water Quality Law
How to Value Your Water Right: The Legal Framework
The Colorado River of Many Returns: How Conflict, Goodwill and
Resolution Set the Course
Colorado River Compact Entitlements
In Memoriam: Prior Appropriation 1848-1991, by Charles Wilkinson
The Reluctant Marriage: The Next Generation (A Response to Charles Wilkinson)
Point/Counterpoint:America’s Waters: A New Era of Sustainability — Report of the Long’s Peak Working Group on National Water Policy
Ecological Integrity, New Western Myth: A Critique of the Long’s Peak Report, by Gregory Hobbs
The Rhetoric of Water Reform Resistance: A Response to Hobbs’ Critiques of Long’s Peak, by Professor Michael C. Blumm
Interpreting the Ecological Integrity Myth (A Response to Professor Blumm), by Gregory Hobbs
Pinchot, Property Rights and Western Water (A Reply to Gregory Hobbs), by Professor Michael C. Blumm
Priority: The Most Misunderstood Stick in the Bundle
Twenty Basic Elements of a Good Water Policy
Justice George Lohr Dedication
Citizen’s Guide to Colorado Water Law
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Table of Contents
 
Preface
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Seeing the Book of Days
Colorado Judicial Merit Selection — A Well-Deserved 40th
Anniversary Celebration
Two Story House
Inca Water Culture
People at Work with Water is Community Work
The Role of Climate on Water Institutions in the Western Americas
Colorado Water Law: An Historical Overview
Colorado’s 1969 Adjudication and Administration Act: Settling In
A Decade of Colorado Supreme Court Water Decisions, 1996-2006
Overview of Western Water Adjudications: A Judge’s Perspective
Water Rights Protection in Water Quality Law
How to Value Your Water Right: The Legal Framework
The Colorado River of Many Returns: How Conflict, Goodwill and
Resolution Set the Course
Colorado River Compact Entitlements
In Memoriam: Prior Appropriation 1848-1991, by Charles Wilkinson
The Reluctant Marriage: The Next Generation (A Response to Charles Wilkinson)
Point/Counterpoint:America’s Waters: A New Era of Sustainability — Report of the Long’s Peak Working Group on National Water Policy
Ecological Integrity, New Western Myth: A Critique of the Long’s Peak Report, by Gregory Hobbs
The Rhetoric of Water Reform Resistance: A Response to Hobbs’ Critiques of Long’s Peak, by Professor Michael C. Blumm
Interpreting the Ecological Integrity Myth (A Response to Professor Blumm), by Gregory Hobbs
Pinchot, Property Rights and Western Water (A Reply to Gregory Hobbs), by Professor Michael C. Blumm
Priority: The Most Misunderstood Stick in the Bundle
Twenty Basic Elements of a Good Water Policy
Justice George Lohr Dedication
Citizen’s Guide to Colorado Water Law
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