Sackett 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…
Read Full ArticleKeeping “Current” with the Idaho Water Adjudications
By Lacy Rammell-O'Brien Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus is attributed with the expression, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”[i] The Idaho Water Adjudications are much…
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