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The Transfer of Water Rights In California: Background and Issues

Clifford T. Lee | December 1st, 1977


This paper is part of a series of background and issue papers prepared by the staff of the Governor’s Commission to Review Water Rights Law.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I.  Water is a Marketable Resource

II.  Legal Impediments to Water Rights Transfers in California

III.  A Selective Review of Recent Water Rights Transfers in California

IV.  Issues

Keywords

history, water markets, water rights