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<br />4210 <br /> <br />Then the dIstrIct's attorney announces that he must go back <br />to trIal court to have some matters clarHled and that H wIll take <br />another fIve to ten years (at least as long as It takes to educate hIs <br />youngest chIld -- through law school). <br /> <br />Our glImpse Into the future looks lIke a horror story but <br />It's not ImpossIble. <br /> <br />Our neIghbors In WyomIng report that they spent $7.2 mIllIon <br /> <br />on the Big Horn adjudIcatIon InvolvIng one Indian reservation. <br /> <br />Everyone is appealing; no one Is happy. <br /> <br />In Arizona v. CalHornia, the Supreme Court decIded water <br />rIghts of the states of ArIzona and CalHornla and five IndIan tribes <br />along the malnstem of the Colorado River. In 1963, after a decade of <br />lHagation, the Indians won 9,000,000 acre-feet of water. The case <br />was reopened In 1983, and the Indians' rIghts were expanded slightly. <br />Today, over 20 years after the 1963 decree, some of those IndIan <br />trIbes have not used a drop of water. Yet the fact that the trIbes <br />have quantHled. hangs like a sword of Oamocles over water users In <br />Southern CalIfornIa who are afraId of what wIll happen when the <br />IndIans start usIng water. And the Indians and the non-IndIans <br />haven't even talked yet about Southern CalHornla buyIng some water <br />from the IndIans. <br /> <br />The PyramId Lake case In Nevada Is another example, In 1913, <br />the Orr Water OHch lHlgatlon began. A short 31 years later, In <br />1944. a decree was entered. fInally In 1983, the Unlted States <br /> <br />- 'lo - <br />