Dec 27, 2024  
2023-2024 Continuing Education and Non-Credit Offerings Bulletin 
    
2023-2024 Continuing Education and Non-Credit Offerings Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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NONC 1002 - Water Law


This course surveys the early water use and development, water rights, management of water, and interstate and federal laws and agreements.

Upon completion of this course, you will gain a basic understanding of:

  • Colorado’s role as a headwaters state
  • How population, climate, geology, and hydrology impact the supply of water resources in Colorado
  • Early water use and development in Colorado and how the prior appropriation doctrine (Colorado Doctrine) differs from riparian doctrine
  • Water terminology and concepts, such as diversion, beneficial use, rule of scarcity, surface and ground water classifications, are more.
  • Colorado water law and policy about history, concepts, and application
  • How water is used in Colorado and the fundamentals of providing water to different users
  • Interstate compacts and transbasin diversions




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