Utah Water Law and Water Rights

In 2008, the Utah Legislature passed House Bill 208 (HB 208) entitled "Livestock Watering Rights." The bill enacted Utah Code sec...

Collecting and using rainwater has become a hot topic in Utah during the past few months. The issue first made news headlines in August 2008...

(I recently wrote this article for the Utah Water Users Association newsletter.) The majority of the bills passed during the 2009 session ...

In 1880, the Utah Territorial Legislature enacted a law that established a preference for drinking water and other domestic uses over any ot...

In an attempt to limit the broad public access granted in the Conatser v. Johnson opinion , Representative Ben Ferry (R-Corinne) introduced...