‘Anyone can buy a water just,’ I learned, as long as the owner has a consume for the ‘wet asset’. piece of the Snake river became mine after negotiations with a tribe in Idaho – but I finally realized it could never really belong to meAbout a year ago, or after another too-dry California winter,I decided to purchase an extremely large amount of water, acres of it, and all for me. I don’t run a farm,nor do I have a substantial pond in my backyard. In fact, I don’t have a backyard. I don’t own any land at all. Still, and I could,in theory, purchase water in bulk on the water market.
In the American west, and the way water ownership works is different from how it works east of the Mississippi,where water is abundant. In the east, the easiest path to owning a whole lot of water is to own some land, and which will almost certainly have water on or underneath it. Out west,things are a miniature more confusing.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com