A Water Rights Handbook for Conservation Agreements in Arizona

Benefiting Landowners and Desert Rivers: A Water Rights Handbook for Conservation Agreements in Arizona is intended as this go-to reference for farmers and ranchers, partner organizations and anyone looking for an approachable and practical overview of water rights in Arizona.

This document contains sample language from the Colorado Water Trust for maintaining water rights in an easement.

This handbook was developed to provide basic tools for understanding Washington water rights. If you own land with water rights, want to buy or sell land with water rights, or want to transfer water rights, this handbook can help you become more knowledgeable.

This paper describes efforts to protect water rights on conserved lands in the West.

Land and water are inextricably connected, and protecting one often necessitates protecting the other. This book offers practical tools and resources to help land trusts address water-related conservation values in their private land conservation work.

This guide intends to provide an Oregon land trust with the information necessary to allow it to address

water rights as part of conservation transactions. First, the guide provides an overview of Oregon water law.

Next, the guide outlines the due diligence process for water rights.

Designed as a guide for prospective buyers of land in Montana, this guide explains how water rights are allocated in Montana. It explains the first in time, first in right system of water rights and how use due diligence in ascertaining water rights and restoring stream flow.

Can the promise of conservation compete against the paycheck from selling a property or water right? And can land and water trusts protect Colorado’s valuable water rights and vast ag lands before they’re lost?

Land and water are inextricably connected, and protecting one often necessitates protecting the other. This book offers practical tools and resources to help land trusts address water-related conservation values in their private land conservation work.