Utah Water Law and Water Rights

The following article is a combination of two articles published in the Water & The Law newsletter, whch our firm publishes on a quarte...

Utah water law provides for a general adjudication process under which all water rights in an area are adjudicated. The final step in this ...

The Utah Division of Water Rights has a service that sends you an email notification when new documents are placed your water right file. Th...

If you have submitted a Report of Conveyance ("ROC") to the Utah Division of Water Rights, you can check its status by clicking h...

The Utah Waterways Task Force has scheduled its second meeting for Wednesday, August 25th, at 9:00 a.m. The meeting will be held in Rooms 1...

Under Article XI, § 6 of the Utah Constitution , a municipality cannot “directly or indirectly, lease, sell, alien or dispose of any waterwo...

As discussed in a previous blog post , water rights in Utah are generally transferred either by deed or through appurtenance. Thus, true own...

This year, the Utah Legislature passed Senate Bill 32 , which permits the capture and storage of precipitation (i.e., rainwater harvesting)....

The Utah Supreme Court recently issued its opinion in Bingham v. Roosevelt City . The case centered around five City wells, known as the Hay...

The Utah Waterways Task Force has set its first meeting for June 24, 2010 at 10:00 am at the Department of Natural Resources building (1594 ...