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  • Next, he demonstrated how crazy he really was, by deeding over to his family, unsolicited, the ten acres on Tarwater Flat, the house, barn, outbuildings, and water-rights.

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • He saw, even then, and that's fifty years ago, the value of the Nahala water-rights which nobody else valued then.

    ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010

  • Mark McPherson , a Dallas-based water-rights lawyer who has represented both ranchers and oil companies, expects conflicts over water to increase as hydraulic fracturing expands.

    Oil's Growing Thirst for Water Russell Gold 2011

  • The improvements on that quarter of a million acres, from drain-tiled meadows to dredge-drained tule swamps, from good roads to developed water-rights, from farm buildings to the

    CHAPTER IV 2010

  • Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes says the new law also makes historic progress on four water-rights cases in the arid American West long pursued by Native American groups.

    US Government Settles Claims With Black, Native Americans Farmers 2010

  • For Love of Water, the amazing documentary about water-rights and bottled water companies, is opening tonight in DC and up and down California.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • "What we are trying to do with the litigation is put the whooping cranes into the water-rights process," said Jim Blackburn, the Aransas Project's lawyer.

    Texans Fight Over Birds, Water Rights Ana Campoy 2010

  • "What we are trying to do with the litigation is put the whooping cranes into the water-rights process," said Jim Blackburn, the Aransas Project's lawyer.

    Texans Fight Over Birds, Water Rights Ana Campoy 2010

  • "What we are trying to do with the litigation is put the whooping cranes into the water-rights process," said Jim Blackburn, the Aransas Project's lawyer.

    Texans Fight Over Birds, Water Rights Ana Campoy 2010

  • Setting a barrel on the lawn to recycle rain "sounds nice and efficient, but in my opinion, under Colorado law, that is theft," says Glenn Porzak, a lawyer who specializes in water-rights claims.

    Out West, Catching Raindrops Can Make You an Outlaw 2009

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