Utah Water Law and Water Rights

"Duty of water" (usually referred to as simply "duty") refers to the quantity of water, as determined by the Utah Divisi...

For administrative purposes, the Utah Division of Water Rights divides the state into a number of areas. In a water right number, the digits...

The Utah Waterways Task Force has scheduled its third meeting for Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 11:00 am. The meeting will be held at th...

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...