Water Law Resources: Books & Treatises

CONTENT: Executive summary -- The history of the Clean Water Act -- General prohibition of discharges -- NPDES overview -- Technology-based standards -- Water quality-based effluent limitations -- Publicly owned treatment works -- Regulation of wetlands -- Discharges and spills of oil and hazardous substances -- Wet-weather discharges from point sources -- Reducing nonpoint source pollution -- Enforcement

CONTENTS: Overview of the Clean Water Act / Theodore L. Garrett -- Scope of "the waters of the United States" protected by the Clean Water Act / Donna M. Downing -- Water pollution control under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System / Karen M. McGaffey, Kelly F. Moser, Aubri N. Margason, and Julie A. Wilson-McNerney -- NPDES permit application and issuance procedures / Randolph L. Hill -- Publicly owned treatment works / Alexandra Dapolito Dunn, Nathan Gardner-Andrews, and Amanda Waters -- Pretreatment and indirect dischargers / Ankur Tohan -- Regulation of wetlands : Section 404 / Hugh Barroll -- Oil and hazardous substances spills : Section 311 / David G. Dickman -- Wet weather regulations : control of stormwater and discharges from concentrated animal feeding operations and other facilities / Randolph L. Hill and Sylvia Horwitz -- Nonpoint source pollution control / Edward B. Witte -- Total maximum daily loads : Section 303(d) / Steven T. Miano, Kelly A. Gablei, and Jessica O'Neill -- Enforcement : Sections 309 and 505 -- Judicial Review : Section 509 / Karen M. McGaffey, Kathryn C. Rose and Margaret C. Hupp -- Federal Facilities / Jeremy N. Jungreis, Jeanette M. Jungreis, S. Wayne Rosenbaum

CONTENTS: The importance of water -- The compact device -- Ground water, international treaties and water allocation compacts -- Development, fisheries, flood control, and pollution abatement -- The Supreme Court's original jurisdiction -- Interstate compact controversies -- A water action plan

Three volume set:
v. 1 [without special title]
v. 2. Knowledge base
v. 3. Facing the challenges

Loose-leaf volume includes latest update.

Multi-volume loose-leaf treatise. Latest update received June 2019.

CONTENTS: Context for water law and water sector reforms -- Evolution of water law -- From water sector reforms to law and policy reforms -- Evolving water law for the twenty-first century -- Regulation of domestic and livelihood water -- Towards an alternative framework for water law reforms

CONTENTS: Introduction / Philippe Cullet, Alix Gowlland Gualtieri and Roopa Madhaw -- An overview of common trends in the water legislation of selected jurisdictions / Andrés Olleta -- International aspects of water law reforms / Irina Zodrow -- Legal implications of trade in 'real' and 'virtual' water resources / Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri -- The role of the world bank in water law reforms / Andrés Olleta -- Context for water sector and water law reforms in India / Roopa Madhav -- Institutional reforms for water / Priya Sangameswaran and Roopa Madhav -- Drinking water reforms / Philippe Cullet -- Legal regime governing groundwater / Sujith Koonan -- Law and policy reforms for irrigation / Roopa Madhav -- International human rights aspects of water law reforms / Alix Gowlland-GualtieriI -- Water sector reforms and principles of international environmental law / David Takacs -- Water, health and water quality regulation / Sujith Koonan and Adil Hasan Khan -- Final remarks / Philippe Cullet, Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri and Roopa Madhav

CONTENTS: Overview and introduction to water law -- Riparian rights -- Prior appropriation -- Hybrid systems and other variations -- Groundwater -- Diffused surface waters --Navigable waters -- Federal and Indian reserved rights -- Interstate and international allocation -- Water service and supply organizations

CONTENTS: Climate change: a strategic opportunity for water managers? / Kathy Jacobs and Paul Fleming -- The delta : resolving California's water conundrum / Pat Mulroy -- The San Diego strategy : a sea change in western water / Maureen A. Stapleton -- The Colorado River story / Jim Lochhead and Pat Mulroy -- Why examine Nebraska's water governance framework? / Ann Bleed -- Harnessing hydrogeological analysis to improve groundwater management across the American West / Burke W. Griggs and James J. Butler Jr -- Southeast Florida : ground zero for sea level rise / Doug Yoder -- Finding the balance : developing resilient, sustainable water and wastewater systems in New York City / Alan Cohn, Angela Licata, and Emily Lloyd

CONTENTS: Water in the West: the evolving prior appropriation doctrine -- The East and West converge: prior appropriation meets regulated riparianism -- Using the Endangered Species Act to control water resources -- Adapting to climate change: conservation, water markets, and land use planning -- Population growth, new development, and water supply: mending the disconnects -- Pricing strategies to manage water demand -- The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin water resources compact: protecting freshwater and promoting sustainability -- The Florida story: managing a limited water supply -- Nebraska water law: complications in a sea of plenty

CONTENTS: Policy context -- Integrated water resource management and river basin planning -- Water rights and allocation -- Water pollution and water quality -- Governance and regulation of water services -- General conclusions

SUMMARY: "Water plays a key role in addressing the most pressing global challenges of our time, including climate change adaptation, food and energy security, environmental sustainability and the promotion of peace and stability. This ... handbook explores the pivotal place of law and policy in efforts to ensure that water enables positive responses to these challenges and provides a basis for sound governance. The book reveals that significant progress has been made in recent decades to strengthen the governance of water resource management at different scales, including helping to address international and sub-national conflicts over transboundary water resources. It demonstrates that 'effective' laws and policies are fundamental drivers for the safe, equitable and sustainable utilization of water. However, it is also shown that what might constitute an effective law or policy related to water resources management is still hotly debated."-- Provided by publisher

CONTENTS: Introduction to water law -- Riparian law -- Dealing with western water realities: the creation and adoption of prior appropriation -- Allocating groundwater: the five groundwater doctrines used in the United States -- Moving from the common law to permits -- Navigable waters -- State public trust doctrines -- Federal water interests -- Interstate water pollution, apportionment and management -- The water-energy nexus -- The intersection of water law and water pollution control law -- Human use of water and endangered species -- Comprehensive water resources management and watershed planning. -- Public interests, private rights in water, and constitutional takings claims

SUMMARY: "Water is an increasingly critical issue at the forefront of global policy change, management and planning. There are growing concerns about water as a renewable resource, its availability for a wide range of users, aquatic ecosystem health, and global issues relating to climate change, water security, water trading and water ethics. This handbook provides the most comprehensive reference ever published on water resource issues. It brings together multiple disciplines to understand and help resolve problems of water quality and scarcity from a global perspective. Its case studies and 'foundation' chapters will be greatly valued by students, researchers and professionals involved in water resources, hydrology, governance and public policy, law, economics, geography and environmental studies"-- Provided by publisher

Part of the RFF Press Water Policy Series and includes contributions from over 20 experts.