Top Storywww.blm.gov As West withers corporations consolidate land and water rights With farms, ranches and rural communities facing historic drought, a worrying trend leads to a critical question: Who owns the water?
Impacts www.invw.org Legislature eyes ways to control speculators buying Washington water rights Several upcoming bills in the Washington Legislature aim to take on the state's convoluted water rights system, which balances two conflicting positions - that water is a public resource, and that water rights are private property.
