Riverflow
The Right to Keep Water Instream

Reveals the diverse ways people are using the law to restore rivers in the western United States and around the world.

Paul Stanton Kibel (Author)

9781108927765, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 January 2022

310 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.42 kg

'Riverflow carefully analyses, among other matters, the myriad conflicts which have arisen from the often massive impact of water development on lakes and rivers, and the species they support. The book considers instream rights in a variety of contexts, both in the US and elsewhere, and it also reviews instream water use where rights are not an issue. Riverflow is a 'must read' for anyone who cares about instream flows.' Harrison C. Dunning, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of California, Davis, School of Law

There are many people and places connected to rivers: fishermen whose livelihood depends on river ecosystems, farms that need irrigation, indigenous groups whose cultures rely on fish and flowing waters, cities whose electricity comes from hydroelectric dams, and citizens who seek wild nature. For all of these people, instream flow is vitally important to where and how they live and work. Riverflow reveals the diverse and creative ways people are using the law to restore rivers, from the Columbia, Colorado, Klamath and Sacramento–San Joaquin watersheds in America, to the watersheds of the Tweed in England and Scotland, the Fraser in Canada, the Saru in Japan, the Nile in North Africa, and the Tigris–Euphrates in the Middle East. Riverflow documents that we already have the legal tools to preserve the ecological integrity of our waterways; the question is whether we have the political will to deploy these tools effectively.

Foreword
Introduction: Publicum Ius Aquae
1. Instream Rights and the Public Trust
2. Instream Rights and Unreasonable Use
3. Instream Rights and Dams
4. Instream Rights and Watershed Governance
5. Instream Rights as Federal Law Recedes
6. Instream Rights as Water Temperatures Rise
7. Instream Rights as Sea Levels Rise
8. Instream Rights and Groundwater Extraction
9. Instream Rights and Old Canals
10. Instream Rights and Water as an Investment
11. Instream Rights and International Law
12. Instream Rights and Irrigation Subsidies
13. Instream Rights and Pacific Salmon
14. Instream Rights and Hatchery Fish
15. Instream Rights as Indigenous Rights
Conclusion: Policy Disconnected from Science
Attributions
Index.

Subject Areas: Environment law [LNKJ], Agricultural law [LNKF], Energy & natural resources law [LNCR], Public international law [LBB], Law [L], Fisheries & related industries [KNAF]