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Conflict & Context: An analysis of water conflict in Idaho from 1950 to 2019

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Dickman, J. Colt

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This is a comparative analysis of groundwater conflict and surface water conflict in Idaho from 1950-2019. The work looks at Idaho's exceptional experience with water and demonstrates that water conflict in Idaho is different than in other PNW states. The work outlines that Idaho's water conflict is almost solely focused...

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provides a fresh perspective to policy makers, water managers, and facilitators across the state to
Collective Aquifer Governance: It’s the Water, and a “Hole” Lot More

Creator:

Wiley, Jakob Stevan

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Aquifers are a whole lot more than groundwater. Aquifers are composed of many kinds of different resources, including storage space, geothermal energy, surface interactions, and various minerals. However, unlike these resources, groundwater is treated as something different. The transition from groundwater management to groundwater governance expanded the role of social...

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. Wiley for the degree of Master of Science in Water Resources Policy and Management presented on
Reviving Whychus Creek: Averting Collisions between the Endangered Species Act and Agricultural Water Use through Proactive Streamflow Restoration

Creator:

Dengel, Jeff

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In the wake of policies catalyzing settlement through agrarian-based land ‘improvement’, private property rights absorbed water resources through Western water law. Consequently, these dominant user regimes and the doctrine of prior appropriation allocated nearly 80 percent of freshwater resources to agricultural use. Following enactment of the Endangered Species Act (ESA)...

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management and natural resource use. To the contrary, those whose livelihoods were born from settlement