Riverflow: The Right to Keep Water Instream [Hardcover]

Reveals the diverse ways people are using the law to restore rivers in the western United States and around the world.Riverflow reveals the sources of domestic and international law that support the right to keep water instream, and provides real world stories of how these sources of law can be put to use to restore rivers and fisheries.Riverflow reveals the sources of domestic and international law that support the right to keep water instream, and provides real world stories of how these sources of law can be put to use to restore rivers and fisheries.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 SacramentoSan 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 TigrisEuphrates 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; 12ló)