Jessica Peterson / Getty Images Water rights pertain to the legal rights of property owners to access and use bodies of water adjacent to lands they hold. Different types of water rights exist ...

states are looking for alternatives to handle water rights, many of which were set more than 100 years ago when water supplies were far more abundant. Back then, just posting a sign next to a ...

While the Resnicks do own water rights in the state, claims they are hoarding the supply or hindering the fight to control the blazes aren't true. Here's what we know. Stewart and Lynda Resnick ...

After the auctioning of 90 shares of Colorado water rights in Boulder County on Wednesday, thoughts turned to the rising cost. Some of the rights -- with associated fees -- sold for more than $80,000.

In reality, for most tribes, they are only “paper rights” not amounting to water they can use. Stephanie Sy reports on the opportunities and impediments ahead as a megadrought afflicts the ...

When there's a shortage, those with newer water rights have to cut back first, sometimes giving up their water completely before older claims lose a single drop. It's known as "first in time ...

Civil rights, voting rights and water rights converged Sunday in Flint where about 200 people marched to commemorate the anniversary of the march in Selma, Ala., 52 years ago and link that ...

BOISE, Idaho — The director of the Idaho Department of Water Resources (IDWR) issued an order on May 30 to curtail, or shut off, groundwater rights that are junior, or more recent, to March 31 ...

Aug 29 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's bid to block Idaho from enforcing laws that provides ranchers a path to take control of water rights the federal ...

In two years, the state approved about 2,500 acre-feet of new water rights within the Great Salt Lake basin under exceptions in a moratorium – including hundreds of acre-feet within view of the ...