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<br />001980 <br /> <br />particular purposes. It arises from federal law, and Is not dependent <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />on state law for Its existence or perfection. It does not require <br /> <br />that water be put to actual use, and therefore Is different from the <br /> <br />. - <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />concept of appropriation of water upon which Western states principally, <br /> <br />but not exclusively, rely. It establishes a right to water to carry <br /> <br />out the purpose(s) of the federal reservation as of the time the <br /> <br />reservation Is Initiated. regardless of whether the water Is actually <br /> <br />put to use and whether future appropriators under state law have actual <br /> <br />knowledge of Its existence. <br /> <br />Because of those features, the federal reserved right has the <br /> <br />potential for creating substantial uncertainty over the right to use <br /> <br />water In areas with federal reservations. <br /> <br />c. The Reserved Right Versus Other Federal Water Rights <br /> <br />Because the Federal Government owns and manages substantial <br /> <br />amounts of land In the Western States.ill these states have manifested <br /> <br />concern that the exercise of these largely unquantlfled reserved rights <br /> <br />may adversely affect non-federal water users. Yet the reserved rights <br /> <br />Issue Is only one part of the relationship between the states and the <br /> <br />Federal Government over water rights. <br /> <br />III See One-Third Of the Nation's Land. pp. 22-23. <br />Map or-Federal Lands, attached as Appendix 2, shows <br />tlons and other federally-owned lands In the United <br /> <br />The National Atlas <br />the major reserva- <br />States. <br /> <br />-10- <br />