Record Details
Water Banking Can Help Great Salt Lake
DigitalCommons@USU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Water Banking Can Help Great Salt Lake |
| Creator | Null, Sarah E. |
| Description | Utah’s Great Salt Lake is a treasured resource, yet dedicated flows have not been established to preserve the economic, ecological, and cultural values that the lake provides. Utah’s prior appropriation law allocates water rights based on time of first use, meaning agricultural water uses typically have senior rights. Utah’s Water Banking Act, which was adopted in 2020, presents an opportunity to reallocate some water to the environment within existing appropriative rights water law.Under the... |
| Date | 2022-09-27T07:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Identifier | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/1159 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/context/wats_facpub/article/2178/viewcontent/water_banking_can_help_great_salt_lake.pdf |
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| Source | Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications |
| Publisher | Hosted by Utah State University Libraries |
| Contributor | Property and Environment Research Center |
| Subject | environmental water management water banking Great Salt Lake Life Sciences |
