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<br />, ., <br /> <br />884 <br /> <br />NATURAL RESOURCES JOURNAL <br /> <br />[Vol 37 <br /> <br />Brian Gray, Temporary Transfers of Water: A Case Study ofCalfornia in A.L.l. <br />A.B.A. COURSE OF STUDY: WESTERN WATER LAW IN THE AGE OF REALLOCA TI <br />103 (MarchI991) (Cosponsored by the University of Arizona College of Law). <br /> <br /> <br />Morris Israel & Jay Lund, Recent California Water Transfers: Implicationsfor Water Managem t, <br />35 NA T. RESOURCES J. 1 (1995). <br /> <br />John Musick, Reweave the Gordian Knot: Water Futures, Water Marketing and Western Wa er <br />Mythology, 35 ROCKY MTN. MIN. L. INST. 57 (1990). <br /> <br />Steven Shupe et aI., Western Water Rights: The Era of Reallocation, 29 NA T. RESOURCES J. 4 3 <br />( 1989). <br /> <br />Mark Tader, Reallocating Western Water: Beneficial Use, Property and Politics, 1986 U. ILL. <br />REv. 277 (1986). <br /> <br /> <br />Dan Tarlock, New Water Transfer Restrictions: The West Returns to Riparianism, 27 WAT <br />RESOURCES RES. 987( 1991). <br /> <br />Dan Tarlock, From Reclamation To Reallocation of Western Water, 46 J. SOIL & W ATE <br />CONSERVATION 122 (1991). <br /> <br />Sergio Viscoli, The Resource Conservation Group Proposal to Lease Colorado River Water, 31 <br />NAT. RESOURCES J. 887 (1991). <br /> <br />Gary Weatherford, Water Transfers and Exchanges: Using the Market to Improve Water Use- <br />Legal and Institutional View, in WESTERN WATER:EXPANDING USES/FINITE SUPPLIE <br />(1986) (University of Colorado School of Law, Natural Resource Law Center, Seventh Annu <br />Summer Program). <br /> <br />3. Agricultural Transfers <br /> <br />Historically, farmers have made extensive use of transfers to obtain water for irrigation <br />There are numerous examples of water transactions between farmers, mutual irrigation companie <br />and governmental water districts throughout the western states. Mutual irrigation companies a <br />typically nonprofit associations whose customers (ranchers, farmers and irrigators) are also thei <br />shareholders, while water districts are governmental entities with elected boards not unlike other <br />local governments. According to Barton Thompson (see infra Institutional Considerations) <br />institutions supply, on average, water for about half of the irrigated acreage in the western states. <br />The new pattern of agricultural transfers involves shifting water from agricultural to urban, <br />industrial and environmental uses. According to Solley (infra this section) agriculture utilizes about <br />80 percent of western water withdrawn for use and is a prime source for reallocation to urban uses. <br />This trend has important implications for agriculture and economic development in many western <br />states. <br /> <br />Raymond Lloyd Anderson, The Irrigation Water Rental Market: A Case Study, 13 AGRlC. ECON. <br />RES. 54(1961). <br />