November, 1999
Arizona Water Resources,
Joe Gelt
ed.,
vol.
8,
no.
3,
12
pp.,
Water Resources Research Center,
Tucson, AZ,
November, 1999
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.