Indian Tribes in the Water Marketing Arena
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11075383 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven J Shupe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 185 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Indian Law Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-002X • E-ISSN: 1930-7918 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20068670 |
| OpenAlex | W2802465457 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
may undermine those goals.'Negotiation, litigation, quantification, marketing, and other decisions are weighed in relationship to how they affect a tribe's ability to control its water resources, both in the present and future.Control over water resources can be asserted by tribal governments in a number of ways.Jurisdictional control is promoted through the development of comprehensive water codes 2 and other regulatory programs for-water administration and quality protection.Actual use of reservation waters by a tribe and its members is another straightforward means of control.Where a tribe lacks the financial resources to put the water to beneficial use itself, it may be able to increase control through formulating water marketing contracts for leasing its entitlements.Indian tribes understand the potential importance of water leasing, not only in terms of asserting control, but also for economic development.Many tribal efforts have been made in the past months to evaluate various water marketing alternatives in order to generate capital.To assist tribal leaders in assessing their options, this article provides a look at water marketing and the issues involving tribal participation.The first section begins with a comprehensive overview of the nature and extent of water marketing in the western United States.The second section then moves into an analysis of Indian water leasing.This section describes both the legal setting underlying tribal water marketing as well as recent efforts to obtain congressional approval for off-reservation leasing.The article concludes with a summary of the issues and controversies that demand resolution in the near future. Overview of Water MarketingThe era of water allocation is coming to a close in the western United States.Although unappropriated streamflows for new
Business · Geography · Marketing · Social and Economic Development in India
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
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| Citation span | 1993 - 2020 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |