The Great Salt Lake and Idaho
By James R. Cefalo In recent years, there have been numerous news articles about the causes and impacts of declining water levels in the Great Salt Lake. Idahoans may feel that Great Salt Lake water levels are Utah’s problem. Idaho…
Read Full ArticleSackett v. EPA: North Idaho’s Clean Water Act Wild Card[i]
By Norman M. Semanko The Clean Water Act ("the Act") has become fertile ground for extensive litigation in the federal courts. And no issue has been more prominent than the Act’s jurisdictional trigger term, "navigable waters," defined in the Act…
Read Full ArticleCurtailing Water Use in a Good Water Year?
By Meghan M. Carter No doubt many of you have seen these or similar headlines this spring: “Possible Water Curtailments Even in a Good Year”[i] and “New Idaho Department of Water Resources Order Would Force 900 Groundwater Users to Curtail…
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