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In- Stream Flow: Wyoming (Draining the West ?) <br />Page 1 of 4 <br />home about productions partners fw channel contact <br />In the West, water is power, and power is never <br />relinquished without a struggle. For more than one hundred <br />years water power has been wielded by irrigators, diverting <br />and using water under state law. In 1986, the Wyoming <br />State Legislature passed a law recognizing that leaving <br />water in the stream for fisheries is a beneficial use. The <br />struggle for water power has intensified ever since. <br />Dan Budd: "Water of the Green <br />River is accountable for a fourth <br />of the industrial tax base of the <br />state of Wyoming, in Rock <br />Springs, the power plants, the <br />trona plants, the fertilizer plants . <br />It <br />View the full. Interview <br />The settlement of Wyoming depended on consumptive use <br />of water -- that means taking water out of the stream and <br />putting it to work for irrigation, industrial or municipal use. <br />In the past three decades a competing concept -- instream <br />flow -- is shaping the debate over how water is used and <br />who makes the decisions. <br />Laurie Goodman: "There is a <br />growing instream flow movement <br />throughout the West. And I think <br />it's reflective of the evolving <br />economies that are happening in <br />the West right now and a change <br />from sole dependence on <br />agriculture and looking at other <br />values that are now coming forward." <br />View the ful l Interview <br />Patrick Tyrell: "The Wyoming instream flow statute passed <br />in 1986 and it does define the instream flow and leaving the <br />water instream as a beneficial use -- that it would be to <br />maintain or enhance fisheries." <br />http://vAvw.focuswest.org/water/instream.cfm <br />Taped segments <br />• Urban growth (Reno) <br />• Instream flow (Wyoming) <br />• Tribal treaty rights (Idaho) <br />Studio discussion themes <br />• Introduction <br />• Which uses have <br />precedence? <br />• Water markets <br />• Tribal claims <br />• Flexible practices <br />• Right past wrongs? <br />• Roles for citizens <br />Interviews <br />Water law <br />Maps <br />Participant biogra hp Les <br />View the program <br />Resource Links <br />Wyoming law on Instream Flows <br />Wyoming State Engineer's Office <br />Wyoming Game and Fish <br />Department <br />Trout Unlimited <br />Pinedale WY online <br />Wyoming State Legislature <br />Water Mews <br />Southern Idaho's top stories: <br />water and cheese <br />Report says feds' salmon plan <br />working but not fast enough <br />Idaho welcomes above - average <br />early snow <br />More LDS members finds piritual, <br />1/5/2004 <br />FocusWest > Draining the West? > Instream flow <br />Search <br />Instream Flow: Wyoming Navigation Links <br />