Waters in public trust—California ruling could change how wells are regulated

Holly Doremus quoted in Bloomberg BNA, March 26, 2015

In Mono Lake, the state supreme court ruled that water users could not divert water from non-navigable waterways flowing into the navigable lake, and in this case the court ruled that groundwater users cannot pump groundwater if doing so negatively affects the navigable Scott River,” she said. “It is the right decision on the law,” she added.