(KEARNEY HUB) The Kearney Hub reports "The three Platte Basin states use different approaches to administer water rights.
Colorado and Wyoming have one practice in common. They have first-in-time-first-in-right priority systems for both surface water and groundwater, according to Mike Jess, former director of what is now the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources.
Nebraska has a dual system. The state administers priority appropriations for surface water, and natural resources districts oversee correlative, share-and-share-alike rights for groundwater.
Recent legislation passed in Nebraska, including LB962, require joint state-NRD plans to manage integrated groundwater and surface water supplies in overappropriated areas. However, that hasn't resolved all water disputes."
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Colorado and Wyoming have one practice in common. They have first-in-time-first-in-right priority systems for both surface water and groundwater, according to Mike Jess, former director of what is now the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources.
Nebraska has a dual system. The state administers priority appropriations for surface water, and natural resources districts oversee correlative, share-and-share-alike rights for groundwater.
Recent legislation passed in Nebraska, including LB962, require joint state-NRD plans to manage integrated groundwater and surface water supplies in overappropriated areas. However, that hasn't resolved all water disputes."
Read the article by clicking the title above.
