Legal Aspects of Instream Water Uses in California: Background and Issues

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Introduction

II. The Nature of Property Rights

III. State Water Resources Control Board Authority Related to Instream Uses

IV.  Other Authority for the Protection and Enhancement of Instream Uses

V. Methods of Protecting Instream Uses in Western States other than California

VI.  Issues