Riparian water rights

Treating Water: Engineering and the Denial of Indigenous Water Rights

In 2011, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada released the National Assessment of First Nations Water and Wastewater Systems as prepared by Neegan Burnside Ltd. This assessment has been largely used by government, media, and Indigenous groups to point to the decrepit state of water and wastewater systems on First Nations reserves across the country, and to advanc...

Responses of Riparian Cottonwoods to Alluvial Water Table Declines.

/ Human demands for surface and shallow alluvial groundwater have contributed to the loss, fragmentation, and simplification of riparian ecosystems. Populus species typically dominate riparian ecosystems throughout arid and semiarid regions of North American and efforts to minimize loss of riparian Populus requires an integrated understanding of the role of surface and groundwater dynamics in t...

Investigation of environmental water rights of Amirkalayeh wetland

Determination of environmental water rights of Amirkalayeh wetland is one of goals for improving of water quality environmental protection and ecosystem restoration dependent on it. This tends to preserve the natural environment and biological values ​​of wetlands. Amirkalayeh wetland is one of important international wetlands recorded in the International Convention for the Protection of Wetla...

Placement of Riparian Forest Buffers to Improve Water Quality

Riparian forest buffers can improve stream water quality, provided they intercept and remove contaminants from surface runoff and/or shallow groundwater. Soils, topography, hydrology, and surficial geology determine the capability of forest buffers to intercept and treat these flows. This paper describes landscape analysis techniques for identifying and mapping locations where forest buffers ca...

Satellite-Based Energy Balance Approach to Assess Riparian Water Use