Benefiting Landowners and Desert Rivers: A Water Rights Handbook for Conservation Agreements in Arizona

This guidebook contains information about water resources and water rights, conservation tools, best practices and practical guidance. Section 1 presents an overview of water resources and water rights in Arizona.

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.

Building a Toolkit for the Protection of Desert Waters is an important step in strengthening the capabilities of the Arizona Land and Water Trust, and other land trusts across the southwest, for conserving this region’s precious and dwindling water resources.

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

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

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.

Climate change and increased resource demands are expected to cause frequent and severe strains on water and energy systems that are necessary for agriculture. This article examines challenges and opportunities for adaptation measures in Arizona.

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.

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.