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WRCA 219
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Title: Dividing the Waters collection
Date (inclusive): 1993 - ongoing
Collection Number: WRCA 219
Creator:
Dolge, Kathy
Extent:
28.75 linear feet
23 cartons
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Riverside, CA 92517-5900
Abstract: A collection of legal and otherwise relevant materials related to western water adjudications and other complex water litigation.
The project has focused on case management, alternative dispute resolution, and the sharing of practical experience by a diverse
group of judges, masters and referees who have participated in Dividing the Waters activities.
Languages: English.
Collection is open for research. Select items are restricted for a ten year period.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Water Resources Collections and Archives. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Distinctive Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Water Resources Collections and Archives as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
[identification of item], [date if possible]. Dividing the Waters collection (WRCA 219). Water Resources Collections and Archives.
Special Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.
The collection was donated by the following three co-conveners on behalf of Dividing the Waters.
Justice Gregory Hobbs, Colorado Supreme Court
Judge Dan Hurlbutt Jr. (retired), Idaho District Court (Snake River Adjudication)
John E. Thorson, former Special Master, Arizona General Stream Adjudication
The 'Dividing the Waters Collection' is a collaboration of a network of judges, special masters and referees who preside over
western water adjudications and other complex water litigation. The central purpose of the Dividing the Waters project has
been to improve the management and outcome of this complex water-related litigation affecting western people and the region's
environment. State trial judges have been most directly served by this project although state appellate judges, federal trial
and appellate judges, and U.S. Supreme Court special masters are also involved in project activities.
Since its inception in 1993, the project has pursued five goals:
1. To share information about how the different states and courts have structured and conducted stream adjudications and other
complex water law litigation;
2. To discuss some of the major problems judges confront in conducting these adjudications and cases;
3. To discuss what works and what does not work so that others do not have to make the same mistakes;
4. To benefit from the expertise of resource people who are involved in the many subject areas touched by these cases; and
5. To enable judges, masters, and referees to meet one another and develop lasting personal and professional relationships.
The project has focused on case management, alternative dispute resolution, and the sharing of practical experience by a diverse
group of judges, masters and referees who have participated in Dividing the Waters activities.
Dividing the Waters has been supported by the Ford Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and General Service Foundation.
For more information, see www.dividingthewaters.org.
General stream adjudications, Native American reserved rights, law review and periodical articles, manuscripts, state-specific
materials, and states water council minutes regarding Western United States water issues, rights, and law collected by a network
of judges, special masters and referees who preside over western water adjudications and other complex water litigation.
The collection is arranged in the order it was kept by Dividing the Waters: General Stream Adjudications and Western Water
Materials; Law Review Articles and Periodicals; Books; State-Specific Materials; Interstate Materials.
Collection number updated January 2019. Legacy collection number was MS 2003/1. This change was part of a project in 2018/2019
to update the collection numbers for collections in the Water Resources Collections and Archives.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Interstate agreements -- West (U.S.)
Riparian rights
Water -- Law and legislation -- West (U.S.)
Water resources development -- West (U.S.)
Water rights -- Law and legislation -- West (U.S.)
Water rights -- West (U.S.)
Water-supply