Abstract
The purpose of this article is to describe the legal problems behind minimum streamflows and to determine whether a legislative solution exists. In so doing, this article examines how two states—Idaho and Colorado—have approached the problem.
I. Introduction
II. The Legal Means of Establishing Minimum Streamflows … A. Problems with Existing State Law … 1. Beneficial Use … 2. Actual Diversion … B. Legislative Alternatives within the Constitutional Framework … 1. The Idaho Approach … 2. The Colorado Approach … 3. Possible Approaches for Nebraska
III. The Administration of Minimum Streamflow Laws
IV. Conclusion
Recommended Citation
Lynn Parker Hendrix,
Minimum Streamflows: The Legislative Alternatives,
57 Neb. L. Rev. 704
(1978)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol57/iss3/5