WSP06987

• File Number: 8064
• Description: Section "D" General Federal Issues/Policies
• Date: 12/1/1983
• Author: Norman K Johnson
• Title: Indian Water Rights in the West
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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irrigable lands" are higher and some lower than a PIA figure
would probably be. This is because in some cases the listed
estimates are of all irrigable lands on a reservation (in
these cases application of the economic analysis of the PIA
standard would probably make the PIA figure different) while
other listed estimates include only a portion of the irrigable
lands on a reservation (in these cases the PIA figure for the
entire reservation might be greater). The fifth column lists
potential water rights based on estimates other than those
related to irrigable lands or estimates which include water
for irrigable lands and other needs or uses. The sixth column
lists a potential total acre-feet per year cla~m for the
reservation, based on the figures in the other columns.

Except for reservation names and gross acreages, each

entry in the tables is footnoted. Accompanying notes are
located immediately following the tabulation for each state.
These notes list the source of the information and, where
appropria~e, how the information was calculated.

Where no information was obtainable for a reservation,
none is included in the tabulation below. Note that there
appears to be a lack of uniformity in the relationship between
the figures in the "Potential Claim" column and those in the
"Presently Irrigated Acres," "Potentially Irr. Acres (Unit
W/Drwl.)" and, "Other Estimate of Water Needs" columns. This
is because of the differing kinds of information included