Water Rights Arrangements in Australia and Overseas

CONTENTS

Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Abbreviations, Preface

1   The water sector
1.1   Surface water
1.2   Ground water resources

2   Legal framework
2.1   Evolution of water law
2.2   Current legislative framework

3   Organisations
3.1   Colorado Division of Water Resources
3.2   Colorado Water Conservation Board
3.3   Water and ground water courts
3.4   Colorado Ground Water Commission
3.5   Colorado Water Quality Control Commission
3.6   US Federal Government agencies
3.7   Water districts
3.8   Ditch companies and irrigation districts
3.9   Municipal water companies

4   Definition of water rights
4.1   Water rights and well permits
4.2   Storage rights
4.3   Rights-of-way

5   Government involvement in water allocation
5.1   Allocation mechanisms
5.2   Resource planning

6   Administering water rights
6.1   Administering surface and ground water
6.2   Administering instream flow and lake-level rights
6.3   Administering transfers in water districts

7   Distribution management
7.1   Water accounting
7.2   Water distribution

8   Pricing
8.1   Price regulation
8.2   Pricing water as a scarce resource
8.3   Pricing water infrastructure services
8.4   Pricing water rights management costs
8.5   Pricing environmental third-party effects

9   Monitoring and enforcement
9.1   Monitoring procedures
9.2   Enforcement procedures

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