This revised second edition is essential to everyone involved with water and water resources-complying with the myriad federal, state, and local laws and regulations that govern the use and management of water in our attempts to maintain, clean, usable water

Acknowledgments -- Purpose and Scope of This Book -- INTRODUCTION: Water Law in Context -- What Do We Mean by Law? -- Law and Science Uses of Water -- Water Resource Management What Is Water Law? -- What Is a Water Right? -- References for Introduction -- Part I THE LAW OF WATER DIVERSION AND DISTRIBUTION -- 1. Legal Classification of Water -- Surface Water Categories -- Groundwater Categories -- Other Categories -- 2. Water Diversion Doctrines: The Riparian System -- What Is Riparian Land? -- Which Uses by a Riparian Are Permissible? -- Which Uses by a Nonriparian Are Permissible? -- Evaluation of Riparianism -- 3. Water Diversion Doctrines: -- Eastern Permit Systems -- Permit and Registration Requirements -- Included Waters and Uses -- Allocation of Water -- Flexibility versus Security -- Evaluation of Eastern Permit Systems -- 4. Water Diversion Doctrines: Prior Appropriation -- Appropriationism and Riparianism -- Beneficial Use -- Water Codes -- Classes of Water -- Evaluation of Appropriationism -- 5. Groundwater Doctrines and Problems -- Absolute Ownership -- Reasonable Use -- Restatement Rule -- Correlative Rights -- Prior Appropriation -- Management Systems -- 6. Federal and Federal-State Diversion Law -- Federal Reserved Rights -- Federal Regulatory Water Rights -- Interstate Waterways -- International Waterways -- 7. Interbasin and Interstate Transfers -- Major Interbasin Transfers -- State Antiexportation Statutes -- 8. Drainage Law -- Drainage of Diffused Surface Water -- Groundwater Drainage Drainage of Watercourse Overflow -- (Channel Modifications) -- 9. Water Distribution Organizations -- Municipal Water Supply Organizations -- Irrigation Organizations -- California's Water Management Districts -- References for Part I -- Part II WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND PROTECTION -- 10. The Federal Government as Project Developer -- Bureau of Reclamation -- Army Corps of Engineers -- The Water Resources Development Act of 1986 -- Soil Conservation Service Tennessee Valley -- Authority Bonneville Power Administration -- 11. The Federal Government as Project Licensor -- Nuclear Regulatory Commission -- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission -- Army Corps of Engineers -- 12. Comprehensive Water Resources -- Planning and Research -- Water Resources Planning -- Water Resources Research -- 13. Limitations on Federal Development and Licensing -- Major Environmental Protection Statutes -- Other Limiting Statutes and Orders -- References for Part II -- Part III NONTRANSFORMATIONAL USES: -- Uses That Do Not Change the Waterbody -- 14. The Public Trust Doctrine -- 15. Public Use of Waterbodies -- Public Use: Ownership of Beds and Banks Public Access -- 16. Use of Lakes -- Artificial Lakes -- 17. Use of Rivers and Streams -- Wild and Scenic Rivers Protection -- River Corridor Protection -- Instream Flow Protection -- Competing Nontransformational Uses -- 18. Federal Outdoor Recreation Programs -- 19. Floodplains Protection -- The National Flood Insurance Program State Floodplain Regulation -- 20. Wetlands Protection -- State and Federal Programs Section 404 -- 21. Weather Modification -- 22. Acid Precipitation Prevention -- 23. Conservation and Reuse -- Agricultural Water Conservation -- Municipal Water Conservation -- The Supreme Court and Water Conservation -- References for Part III -- Part IV WATER TREATMENT AND LAND USE -- 24. The Clean Water Act: Introduction -- 25. The Clean Water Act: Goals and Policies -- 26. The Clean Water Act: Antidegradation -- and Attainability Antidegradation Attainability -- 27. The Clean Water Act: Industrial Point -- Source Dischargers -- Phase I -- Phase II -- Heat Dischargers -- Prohibited Pollutants -- Water Quality-Based Effluent Limitations -- Federal Floors and State Ceilings -- New Concepts in Industrial Point Source Control -- 28. The Clean Water Act: Municipal Effluent Limitations -- 29. The Clean Water Act: Federal Subsidies for POTW Construction Construction Grants Program -- Grants for State Revolving Funds -- Evaluation of Municipal Point Source Control Program -- 30. The Clean Water Act: Industrial Pretreatment -- National Pretreatment Standards -- Local Pretreatment Programs -- 31. The Clean Water Act: National Pollutant -- Discharge Elimination System -- 32. The Clean Water Act: Enforcement -- Governmental Enforcement Remedies -- Citizen Suits -- EPA Enforcement -- 33.The Clean Water Act: Interstate Water Pollution -- Interstate Water Pollution Control Compacts -- Interstate Permitting and Enforcement -- 34. The Clean Water Act: Nonpoint Source Control -- Section 208 -- The 1987 Amendments -- 35. The Clean Water Act: 208 Point Source Planning -- Industrial Point Source Planning -- POTW Planning -- 36. Ocean Disposal of Waste -- Ocean Discharge Criteria -- Ocean Dumping -- 37. Groundwater Protection -- EPA Groundwater Protection Strategy -- Federal Statutory Programs -- State Groundwater Protection Programs -- 38. Oil and Hazardous Substances Cleanup -- Oil and Hazardous Substances Spills -- CERCLA and Hazardous Wastes -- State Spill Statutes -- 39. Drinking Water Protection -- Safe Drinking Water Act -- Saline Water Conversion -- 40. The Common Law and Water Quality -- 41. Regional Land-Use Controls -- Adirondack Park Agency Environmental Land and Water Management Act -- Lake Tahoe Regional Planning Agency -- Watershed Management -- References for Part IV -- Part V MEDIATION OF WATER RESOURCES DISPUTES -- Glossary of Acronyms -- Index.