Riverflow

The Right to Keep Water Instream

Paul Stanton Kibel

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781108935142
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Environmental Law
• Index: Law

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 Sacramento–San 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 Tigris–Euphrates 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Epigraph
• Contents
• List of Maps
• Foreword: Marching Away from Folly
• Acknowledgments
• 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
• 12 Instream Rights and Irrigation Subsidies
• 13 Instream Rights and Pacific Salmon
• 14 Instream Rights and Hatchery Fish
• 15 Instream Rights as Indigenous Rights
• Conclusion Policy Disconnected from Science
• About the Author
• Index