Sharing the Common Pool - Water Rights in the Everyday Lives of Texans

Informationen zum Autor Charles R. Porter is assistant professor of history at St. Edward's University in Austin! USA! and a licensed real estate agent and broker. He has been a presenter and panel moderator for the Texas legislature! at the Texas Groundwater Summit! and at a joint conference of the Texas Rural Water Association and Texas Water Conservation Association. Klappentext If all the people, municipalities, agencies, businesses, power plants, and other entities that think they have a right to the water in Texas actually tried to exercise those rights, there would not be enough water to satisfy all claims. Water rights expert Charles Porter explains in the simplest possible terms who has rights to the water in Texas, who determines who has those rights, and who benefits or suffers because of it.

Product details

• Authors: Charles R. Porter, Charles R./ Sansom Porter
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2014
• EAN: 9781623491376
• ISBN: 978-1-62349-137-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: River Books (Texas A&M Univers; River Books, Sponsored by the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texa; River Books, Sponsored by the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texa; River Books (Texas A&M Univers; Pam and Will Harte Books on Ri
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law