Globe Climate: Alberta’s drought is testing the limits of its water-licensing regime

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Globe Climate: Alberta’s drought is testing the limits of its water-licensing regime
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The manner in which water is allocated for use throughout western North America is elegantly simple. Known as “first-in-time, first-in-right” or “prior appropriation,” it relieves government of the obligation to determine whose need for water is most pressing.

Yet during previous droughts in Alberta, FITFIR has amounted to a curious sort of fiction: Senior water licence holders have not insisted on enforcing their legal rights. Rather, major users such as irrigation districts voluntarily negotiated temporary reductions in their water allocations to ensure enough was left for others.

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