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• Indian Water in the New West (Tucson and London: University of Arizona Press, c1993), ed. by Thomas R. McGuire, William B. Lord, and Mary G. Wallace (HTML and Epub with commentary at Open Arizona)
• Water supply and utilization : an outline of hydrology from the viewpoint of the arid section of the United States together with an outline of water law and its administration as it has developed in the arid states (J. Wiley & Sons, 1930), by Donald M. Baker and Harold Conkling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water rights for irrigation; principles and procedure for engineers (Photolith reproduction by the Stanford University press], 1936), by S. T. Harding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Portland resolutions, adopted at the Western states water power conference, Portland, Oregon, September 23, 1915. (C. C. Chapman, 1915), by Western states water power conference (1915 : Portland) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Call, resolutions and official proceedings, Western States Water Power Conference, Portland, Oregon, September 21-22-23, 1915 : Governors and official delegates of states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming (C.C. Chapman, 1915), by Oregon) Western States Water Power Conference (1915 : Portland, C. C. Chapman, William Spry, Charles Clarence Chapman, and William Spry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected problems in the law of water rights in the West (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1942), by Wells A. Hutchins, United States. Office of Land Use Coordination, United States. Farm Security Administration, United States. Soil Conservation Service, and United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal-State Water Rights hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation, Eighty-Eighth Congress, second session, on Mar. 10-13, 1964. (U.S. G.P.O., 1964), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian water rights hearings before the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, second session ... June 22 and 23, 1976. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian water rights hearings before the Subcommittee on Indian Affairs of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, second session ... March 25 and 26, 1974. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1974), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission (The Commission, 1998), by United States. Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• HR 3478 and HR 745 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1998), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian water rights settlements : oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Subcommittee on Water and Power of the Committee on Natural Resources, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, Wednesday, April 16, 2008. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2008), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water rights in the western states; the law of prior appropriation of water as applied alone in some jurisdictions, and as, in others, confined to the public domain, with the common law of riparian rights for waters upon private lands. Federal, California and Oregon statutes in full, with digest of statutes of Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Philippine Islands, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. (Bancroft-Whitney company, 1911), by Samuel C. Wiel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water rights laws in the nineteen Western States (Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Natural Resource Economics Division : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1972), by Wells A. Hutchins and United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Natural Resource Economics Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected cases on water rights and irrigation law in California and western states (Bancroft-Whitney Co., 1910), by Gavin William Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water rights in the western states. The law of appropriation of water as applied alone in some jurisdictions, and as applied together with the common law in others. Federal and California statutes in full. With synopsis of statutes of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming and Philippine Islands. Forms. (Bancroft-Whitney Co., 1905), by Samuel C. Wiel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fort McDowell Indian Water Rights Settlement Act of 1990 : joint hearing before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, and the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, second session on H.R. 5063 ... hearing held in Washington, DC, July 17, 1990. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1991), by United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and United States Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• S. 3128, S. 3355, and S. 3381 : hearing before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, on S. 3128, the White Mountain Apache Tribe Rural Water System Loan Authorization Act, which authorizes a loan to construct a community water supply; S. 3355, the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2008, which settles the tribe's water rights and provides support for economic development; S. 3381, a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation, to develop water infrastructure in the Rio Grande basin, and to approve the settlement of the water rights claims of the Pueblos of Nambe, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, and Taos, September 11, 2008. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2009., 2009), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected problems in the law of water rights in the West (W.S. Hein, 1971), by Wells A. Hutchins, United States. Farm Security Administration, United States. Soil Conservation Service, and United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Water rights in the western states. The law of appropriation of water as applied alone in some jurisdictions, and as applied together with the common law of riparian rights in others. Federal and California statutes in full, with digest of statutes of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Hawaii, and Phillipine Islands. Forms. (Bancroft-Whitney Co., 1908), by Samuel C. Wiel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Endangered species : limited effect of consultation requirements on western water projects : report to the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee on Environmental Protection, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate (The Office, 1987), by United States General Accounting Office and United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Protection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strategies for reserving flows for fish and wildlife : identification, description and preliminary evaluation (Reproduced by National Technical Information Service, 1977), by Richard L. Dewsnup, Harvey R. Doerksen, Dallin W. Jensen, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Western Energy and Land Use Team, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Office of Biological Services. Western Water Allocation Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Bypass flows" on national forest lands : joint oversight hearing before the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health and the Subcommittee on Water and Power of the Committee on Resources, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, May 22, 2001. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2001), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water rights in the western states : the law of appropriation of water as applied alone in some jurisdictions, and as applied together with the common law of riparian rights in others. Federal and California statutes in full, with digest of statutes of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Hawaii, and Philippine Islands. Forms. (Bancroft-Whitney Co., 1908), by Samuel C. Wiel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water Rights Settlement Act of 1956 : hearings before the United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Eighty-Fourth Congress, second session, on Feb. 22, 23, Mar. 21, 1956. (U.S. G.P.O., 1956), by United States House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development of the law of waters in the West (California Bar Association, 1922), by Lucien Shaw and California Bar Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The western farmer's water right (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1920), by R. P. Teele (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1948 : Nos. 229-304 : United States of America, petitioner vs. Gerlach Live Stock Company ... brief of the states of California, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota and Washington, Amici Curiae (Parker & Company, Law Printers, 1949), by United States Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Right of state to regulate distribution of water rights. (Recorder Press, 1915), by O. L. Waller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Framework for the transfer of title, Bureau of Reclamation projects. (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation], 1995), by United States Bureau of Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of Water in the West (U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Region, Division of Planning, 1999), by United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Mid-Pacific Regional Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of Water in the West : challenge for the next century (June 1998) : executive summary (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, 1999), by United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Mid-Pacific Regional Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Federal-State Water Rights : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation, Eighty-Eighth Congress, second session, on Mar. 10-13, 1964. (U.S. G.P.O., 1964), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water rights laws in the nineteen western states (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1971), by Wells A. Hutchins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indian water rights : an analysis of current and pending Indian water settlements (Office of Trust Responsibilities, Bureau of Indian Affairs ;, 1996), by Jon C. Hare, Chehalis Confederated Tribes, and United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Office of Trust Responsibilities (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trends and directions in federal water policy (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission, 1997), by Ariz.) Indian Water (1997 : Phoenix and Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• The genesis and development of the law of waters in the Far West (1902), by John B. Clayberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Right to Water: From Concept to Implementation (c2006), by World Water Council (PDF at worldwatercouncil.org)
• The Right to Water (Geneva: World Health Organization, c2003), by Lindsay Knight, ed. by Gregory Hartl
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• Ein Beitrag zur Bestimmung der rechtlichen Verhältnisse des Wassers für Staats- und Landwirthschaft. (Druck von H.M. Köbner, 1846), by Wilhelm Hirschfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• A view of river rights. (P.H. Nicklin & T. Johnson, 1835), by Charles Jared Ingersoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water-right problems of Bear River. (Govt. print. off., 1899), by Clarence Thomas Johnston and Joseph Allison Breckons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suiriken. (松山房, 1833), by Masataka Yasuda (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public regulation of water power in the United States and Europe. ([Ann Arbor, 1911), by John A. Fairlie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Irrigation development. History, customs, laws, and administrative systems relating to irrigations, water-courses, and waters in France, Italy, and Spain. The introductory part of the Report of the state engineer of California, on irrigation and the irrigation question. (James A. Ayers, supt. state printing, 1886), by California. Office of State Engineer and Wm. Ham. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vodnoe pravo i predmety obshchego polʹzovanʹi͡a. (Russko-Manʹchzhurskai͡a knigotorgovli͡a, 1928), by George Constantine Guins (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De la propriété des eaux courantes, du droit des riverains, et de la valeur actuelle des concessions féodales, ouvrage contenant l'exposé complet des institutions seigneuriales et le principe de toutes les solutions de droit qui se rattachent aux lois abolitives de la féodalité (C. Hingray, 1846), by Championnière (page images at HathiTrust)
• California water controversies and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation : hearing before the Subcommittee on Water and Power of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, first session on California water controversies and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamaion, Sacramento, CA, August 29, 1989. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1989), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the law of irrigation and water rights : and the arid region doctrine of appropriation of waters as the same is in force in the states of the arid and semi-arid regions of the United States : and also including an abstract of the statutes of the respective states, and the decisions of the courts relating to those subjects (Bender-Moss, 1912), by Clesson S. Kinney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Régime des Eaux, ou Traité des Eaux de la Mer, des Fleuves, Rivières navigables et flottables, et autres Eaux de toute Espèce. (Paris, 1839), by François Xavier Paul Garnier (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'Organisation légale des Cours d'Eau sous le triple Point de Vue de l'Endiguement, de l'Irrigation et du Desséchement. (Paris, 1845), by Adrien Dumont and Aristide Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ground water and the law (U.S. Geological Survey, 1961), by H. E. Thomas and Mont.) Water Resources Conference (4th : 1959 : Butte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Texas Department of Water Resources. (The Dept., 1979), by Texas. Department of Water Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Reports on the trial of Arizona vs. California et al, in the matter of the Colorado River. June 14, 1956 to August 1957] (s.n., 1900), by Sidney Kartus and Arizona. Legislature. Legislative Council (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arizona's rights in the Colorado River : proposals of Arizona and the counter proposals of California submitted to the tri-state conference now in progress ([Arizona Colorado River Commission], 1929), by Alphous Hoyt Favour and Arizona. Colorado River Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Common law in relation to watercourses (Hilliard, Gray and Co., 1833), by Joseph K. Angell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoire sur le droit des rivières (J.E. Seidell, 1812), by Charles Jules Rousseau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compendio istorico e cronologico delle ragioni, e proprietà della città di Brescia sopra li tre fiumi Oglio, Chiese, e Mella. (Brescia, 1800), by navigazione e canali d'irrigazione Brescia (Commune). Dipartimento di fiumi and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water rights on interstate streams; the Platte River and tributaries. Results of investigation (Govt. print. off., 1905), by R. P. Teele and United States Office of Experiment Stations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Entwurf eines preussischen Wassergesetzes. Bericht über die vom Sonderausschuss für Wasserrecht der Deutschen Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft mit andern Vereinigungen vereinbarte Beurteilung des Entwurfs erstattet (Berlin, 1894), by Henning August Arnim and Regierungsrat Frank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legislation concerning water-rights (Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, 1918), by Orson Winso Israelsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Illinois water-power-water-way : if constructed can the promises made to the people be fulfilled and will its cost warrant the burden to taxpayers? (Marseilles, Ill. : Kohl Printing Company, [1912], 1912), by Ebin J. Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water rights and the control of waters : references supplementary to the printed list issued in 1914 (Library of Congress, Division of Bbliography, 1931), by Florence S. Hellman (page images at HathiTrust)
• First biennial report of the Montana State Water Conservation Board to the Governor, Legislature and people of Montana, July 1, 1964, June 30, 1966. ([Montana State Water Conservation Board], 1966), by Montana State Water Conservation Board (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Central Arizona project and Colorado River water rights: hearings, Eighty-first Congress, first session, on S. 75, a bill authorizing the construction, operation, and maintenance of a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Bridge Canyon, together with certain appurtenant dams and canals, and for other purposes and S.J. Res. 4, a joint resolution granting the consent of Congress to joinder of the United States in suit in the U.S. Supreme Court for adjudication of claims to waters of the Colorado River system, March 21-24, 26, 28-31, and April 2, 9, 11-14, 26-28, and 30, and May 2, 1949. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation Indian Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act of 1999 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power (page images at HathiTrust)
• Threatened exploitation of Pima Indians (Indian Rights Association, 1920), by Wm. Alexander Brown and Matthew K. Sniffen (page images at HathiTrust)
• A future history of water (Durham : Duke University Press, 2019., 2019), by Andrea Ballestero and Duke University Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Golden rule as a maxim of the modern law of water rights (St. Louis, 1922), by Rome G. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemporary relevance of Hawaiian native water rights study to federal actions and interests (Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1983), by William Kloos, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Williamson B. C. Chang, Nathan Aipa, United States. Office of Water Policy, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Water Resources Research Center, and United States Department of the Interior (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Water resources of the Columbia River Basin : abstract (International Joint Commission, 1959), by International Columbia River Engineering Board and International Joint Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• California's stake in the Colorado River. ([California State Print. Off.], 1957), by Colorado River Board of California (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Draft environmental impact statement : water allocation for the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa (ACT) River Basin (The District, 1998), by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Mobile District, Geological Survey (U.S.), United States. Southeastern Power Administration, United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States National Park Service, United States National Ocean Service, United States. National Marine Fisheries Service, United States Maritime Service, United States Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and United States Environmental Protection Agency (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water and the land : facts about our water problem (United States Government Printing Office, 1965), by Ben Osborn, Phoebe O'N. Harrison, United States Department of Agriculture, and United States. Soil Conservation Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water rights and soil and water conservation (United States Government Printing Office, 1957), by United States. Soil Conservation Service and United States Department of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Missouri River basin industrial water marketing : hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Water Resources of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, first session ... (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Water Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tōhoku no kōken to Nihon no tachiba (Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha, 1929), by Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha. Harubin Jimusho and Takejirō Horiuchi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De rechten op grond en water op Java en Madoera verklaard (Visser & Co., 1928), by Johann Hermann Heslinga (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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