Wisconsin State Law Library

Waters and Water Rights is a comprehensive analysis of water-related laws contained in a five volume set. Authored by a team of practicing attorneys and legal scholars, chapter topics include:

• riparian rights
• reasonable use and correlative rights of groundwater
• infrastructure for water distribution and storage by public water districts and private organizations
• public right to water
• constitutional foundations of federal water
• reserved water rights and Indian reserved water rights
• ownership of water, state water rights, and the acquisition of water for federal uses
• impact of the Endangered Species Act on private water rights
• climate change
• interstate water allocation and the interstate export of water
• international waters
• environmental issues including water quality, groundwater protection, water pollution, drainage, flooding and wetlands preservation

Volume 4 offers an overview of each state's water laws compiled by an expert in the water law of that particular state. The state surveys include references to other state-specific sources of information. Also contained in the volume are surveys covering five river basins.

Volume 5 includes an extensive glossary, table of case law, and a table of state and federal laws with references to sections and footnotes within the set.

Waters and Water Rights is updated annually. The library also owns the 1st , 2nd and 3rd editions originally edited by Robert Emmett Clark