25 U.S.C. § 381 — Irrigation lands; regulation of use of water

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The Secretary of the Interior can set rules for sharing irrigation water fairly among Indians on a reservation. This applies whenever water is needed to make reservation land usable for farming.

When a reservation needs irrigation water to make its land usable for farming, the Secretary of the Interior may create rules for using that water, as needed. The goal of these rules is to make sure water is shared fairly and equally among the Indians living on that reservation. In addition, no other riparian landowner may make or receive a new claim to that water in a way that damages another riparian landowner's rights.

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In cases where the use of water for irrigation is necessary to render the lands within any Indian reservation available for agricultural purposes, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to secure a just and equal distribution thereof among the Indians residing upon any such reservations; and no other appropriation or grant of water by any riparian proprietor shall be authorized or permitted to the damage of any other riparian proprietor.

Source credit: (Feb. 8, 1887, ch. 119, § 7, 24 Stat. 390.)

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1887Enacted · Act of Feb. 8, 1887, ch. 119 · 24 Stat. 390

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