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If you can reach groundwater (and multiple people can) it's a race to use it up before someone else does.
by HWR_14 4y ago
If you can reach groundwater (and multiple people can) it's a race to use it up before someone else does.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoThis isn't exactly correct. IF someone has higher priority and cant get water, they can sue other users to make them stop.
- HWR_14 4y agoGroundwater doesn't follow the same priority system (in most states). Nor is there anything stopping people in border areas from taking all the water in another state's aquifer.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoI'm most familiar with California which absolutely has Groundwater priority. Interstate groundwater conflicts come up less frequently but there is a framework for deciding them. You may be interested in this recent Supreme Court ruling on exactly that subject. https://globalwaterforum.org/2021/12/21/u-s-supreme-court-issues-decision-in-first-ever-dispute-over-interstate-groundwater-implications-for-international-law/ https://globalwaterforum.org/2021/12/21/u-s-supreme-court-is...
- katbyte 4y agoExcept how do you know who’s using your ground water? It could be someone 20k away creating a depression in the water table with a deeper well so it drops just below yours. It’s far more complex then you seem to think it is