Tag: water law
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Texas Water Journal publishes new legal review in Volume 17
The Texas Water Journal has published a new article in Volume 17, a legal review titled “The Texas Supreme Court’s Decision Concerning Ownership of Produced Water in Cactus Water Services LLC v. COG Operating LLC: When Is Water Not Water?,” by Joshua Katz.
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Understanding Groundwater Law
There are four general approaches to groundwater ownership that states follow. While some states use a combination of approaches, these are the most helpful to learn when it comes to understanding groundwater law. States tend to follow one of these four types of groundwater law, but as groundwater science has evolved and water demand has…
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Different States, Different Management Strategies
Texas groundwater management evolves Over 70 years later, Texas groundwater law and management is a patchwork of precedents and local GCDs, which remain the state’s preferred groundwater management tool. GCDs must receive local voter approval to be established and enact rules. Districts can manage groundwater through well spacing and production limitations, and can place requirements…
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Texas’ MOST INFAMOUS Groundwater Lawsuits
“That Ohio Supreme Court ruling was actually based on an 1843 case decided in England, Acton v. Blundell. “So the rule of capture is really a tort law concept and essentially says, ‘you can’t sue your neighbor if your well dries up, or the local spring or something like that.’” There was little scientific understanding of…
