The new edition adds dozens of recent decisions and key statutory changes. Virtually every principal case in the leading casebooks is cited or discussed, making it an excellent aid for students in any water law course. The revised book deals with changes in evolving areas like groundwater-surface water conflicts, public recreational uses, instream flow protection, federal water development, takings claims, and public interest concerns. See Chapter 5: Groundwater.

Modern Water Law provides a comprehensive text to study the range of legal issues and doctrines that affect water resources. This is a national book that uses many recent cases, bringing a fresh perspective to the field. The authors begin with private water use rights, including common-law doctrines for riparian reasonable use and prior appropriation, as well as groundwater rights and the statutory schemes for administering water use rights. The book explores the range of public rights in water, including navigation, the public trust doctrine, federal reserved rights, and interstate water management. The book also introduces modern challenges and environmental protection goals, focusing on the energy-water nexus, water pollution, and endangered species conflicts. The final chapters combine these concepts in the context of complex watershed restoration challenges and water rights takings litigation. See Chapter 4: Groundwater.

This book tackles groundwater pumping and its problems across America, including human reliance, conservation, and environmental impact. Robert Glennon discusses common-sense legal and policy reforms that could help avert potentially catastrophic future effects.

An engaging call to understand and protect groundwater, the primary source of drinking water for almost half of the world's population Groundwater is essential for drinking water and food security. It provides enormous environmental benefits by keeping streams and rivers flowing. But a growing global population, widespread use of industrial chemicals, and climate change threaten this vital resource. Groundwater depletion and contamination has spread from isolated areas to many countries throughout the world. In this accessible and timely book, hydrology expert William M. Alley and science writer Rosemarie Alley sound the call to protect groundwater.   Drawing on examples from around the world, including case studies in the United States, Canada, Australia, India, and Sub-Saharan Africa, the authors examine groundwater from key scientific and socioeconomic perspectives. While addressing the serious nature of groundwater problems, the book includes stories of people who are making a difference in protecting this critical resource.

Available online in Westlaw. See Chapter 5. Groundwater Law. This chapter examines common law doctrines governing groundwater allocation, statutory modifications, and groundwater pollution.

Available online in Westlaw. See Chapter 20. Groundwater Protection Systems. This chapter examines state efforts to protect groundwater through a variety of regulatory devices.

Available in Lexis+. See Part IV: Quantitative Groundwater Law. Chapters 18-23 cover the physical, social, and legal intricacies of groundwater law.

This book provides both a general overview of basic water law doctrines and an exploration of how water law—the law and policies governing allocation of water—fit into broader ecological and environmental law issues. The book provides an overview of important hydrological principles before discussing the two state-law systems governing use of surface water in the United States and the five doctrines governing use of groundwater. It then explores the federal government's interests in the fresh waters of the United States, ranging from protection of navigability to federal water projects to federal water rights. See Chapter 4. Allocating Groundwater: The Five Groundwater Doctrines Used in the United States. This chapter examines the English Rule of Capture ("Absolute Ownership"), the American Rule of Reasonable Use, the Correlative Rights Doctrine, the Restatement (Second) of Torts, and the Prior Appropriation Doctrine.

This is the eighth edition of Essentials of Texas Water Resources, which contains research and scholarship by "the state's sharpest water minds." Particularly relevant to this research guide are Chapter 5: Groundwater Law; Chapter 6: Conjunctive Management of Surface and Groundwater Resources; Chapter 16: Groundwater Conservation Districts and Subsidence Districts; Chapter 18: Groundwater Transactions; Chapter 19: Forecasting Underground Rain: Groundwater Availability Modeling; and Chapter 21: Groundwater Management Area Joint Planning.