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Colorado Water Law for Non-Lawyers. By P. Andrew Jones and Tom Cech. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. xvii + 276 pp. Maps, figures, tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $26.95 paper.
Water touches the lives of all of us every day, and so, at least indirectly, do the rules that govern its allocation. Since the days of the Anasazi, and of the northern Mexican communities of irrigated farms, and especially since the 1859 gold rush, Colorado has been a leader in the development of water law in the arid West. For years, interested lay readers have faced an important gap when searching for information about Colorado water law. Justice Greg Hobbs's Citizen's Guide to Colorado Water Law, 3rd...