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A Case Study of Water Sharing in the San Juan Basin
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | A Case Study of Water Sharing in the San Juan Basin |
| Creator | Brosnan, Sara Henchey |
| Subject | Active Water Resource Management (AWRM) Doctrine of Prior Appropriation Shortage sharing San Juan River Basin Agreement Utton Center Model American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Model Shared Use of Transboundary Water Resources (SUTWR) Water Code |
| Description | A Professional Project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Water Resources, Water Resources Program, University of New Mexico. In times of shortage, how should New Mexico’s scarce water supply be allocated? New Mexico’s prior appropriations doctrine gives a temporal preference of “first in time, first in right,” as the rule for allocation. Unfortunately, in most basins, we do not know with certainty who that “first” is, because rights have not been adjudicated. In 2004, the New Mexico Legislature passed Active Water Resource Management (AWRM) legislation which codified the Office of the State Engineer’s (OSE's)... |
| Date | 2009-04-26T18:44:00Z 2009-04-26T18:44:00Z 2009-04-26T18:44:00Z |
| Type | Presentation Technical Report Thesis Other |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/1928/9221 |
| Language | en |
