Legal Problems Involved in Developing Water Supplies for Energy Development

My responsibility in this part of the program is, first, to provide a broad framework of the legal structure for the acquisition of water rights for energy development within which my colleagues Dewsnup, White, and Clark will focus on some of the most critical, active issues and, secondly, to say something about several important water-related energy issues which will not be touched on by other panelists. My frame of reference is both functional and jurisdictional: how is water used for energy development and how is jurisdiction allocated among local, state, Indian, regional, and national governments for the acquisition of the rights necessary to initiate, perfect, and protect such