WELCOME TO THE
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NATIVE AMERICAN
Water Rights Settlement Project
A partnership of the University of Idaho College of Law and Waters of the West Program, the University of New Mexico Utton Transboundary Resources Center, the University of New Mexico Centennial Library for Science and Engineering, and Earth Data Analysis Center, and the American Indian Law Center, Inc.
The Native American Water Rights Settlement E-Repository is designed to make Native American water rights settlement documents available online for those involved in or studying settlement negotiations. The repository will contain federal, state, tribal and court public documents that relate to Native American water rights settlements. No confidential information will be included in the database. Information can be accessed online through a traditional text search and through a map-based web interface that includes a clickable U.S. map which will provide visual reference and allow searches based on reservation, state, or water basin.
Project benefits:
- Access to the information needed to craft enduring water rights settlements.
- Reduce time required to work out Native American water issues.
- Provide stakeholders and courts access to the challenges and opportunities that have been experienced by others.
- Allow research to identify successful approaches to settlement.
- Allow research to identify successful approaches to settlement.
- Improve future water dispute resolution and management creating benefits for society as a whole.
See flyer with contact information.
The following are links to review the proposed Scope of Work, Letters of Support from Native American Rights Fund, National Congress of American Indians and the Western States Water Council.
The E-Repository can be accessed at http://repository.unm.edu/handle/1928/21727
The map can be accessed at http://edacweb.unm.edu/nawrs.net/
