November, 1999
Arizona Water Resources,
Joe Gelt
ed.,
vol.
8,
no.
3,
12
pp.,
Water Resources Research Center,
Tucson, AZ,
November, 1999
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Officials ponder the implications of the Arizona Supreme Court's recent ruling that Indians' rights to groundwater trump the state-granted rights of cities, mines and others. Most agree that the Indian water rights cause will undoubtedly be well served, but some speculate that the decision also will provide a strategy to expand enforcement of the Endangered Species Act.