Water Rights And Water Quality: Interrelationships And Implications

This live webinar will provide an overview of the principal water rights laws concerning the diversion, use and return or disposal of water.

Water rights and water quality issues are interrelated, but most legal frameworks tend to focus on one or the other. An understanding of applicable laws and the intersection between the two fields is essential to anyone active in the sector. Regardless of how you use water - municipal water supplies, commercial processes, agriculture, or mining - the diversion, use, and return or disposal of the water must comply with the law.

This live webinar will provide an overview of the principal water rights laws throughout the country as well as the Federal Clean Water Act, the cornerstone of water quality regulation. The speakers will also provide examples and case studies of approaches for compliance. The webinar will be useful to water practitioners, experts, consultants, managers and regulators of all sorts, whether you focus on supply or quality aspects and wherever one is located.

Learning Objectives

- You will be able to discuss Riparian Rights.

- You will be able to review Law of Groundwater.

- You will be able to explain managing water resources.

- You will be able to discuss Federal Clean Water Act.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Russell M. McGlothlin

Russell M. McGlothlin
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP

Shareholder in Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP's Natural Resources Department
Possesses extensive experience concerning water use and management in California and the western United States, including water right permitting and adjudication, water transfers, conjunctive water use, water quality, and reclamation
Wrote several chapters concerning California groundwater law within the Groundwater Water Resources Agency’s Groundwater Management Handbook
Member of the Council of Legal Advisors to the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California at Santa Barbara
Regularly speaks on water law-related matters before industry groups and publishes professionally on topics concerning the use and management of water

Ronda L. Sandquist

Ronda L. Sandquist
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP

Shareholder with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
Serves as a strategic advisor to clients on environmental, regulatory and legislative approaches for major projects and legal compliance regarding environmental and natural resources matters
Guides clients through the issuance of the necessary permits for construction and operation of the projects, including permits for water, water quality, wetlands, endangered species, air quality, and storage and use of hazardous materials
Named to the Best Lawyers in America list every year since 2006
Selected for the World Resource Institutes, Water Quality Trading Advisory Committee
Awarded the American Planning Association (Colorado) Presidents Award in 2009, the National Planning Award, American Planning Association in 1993 and 2009, and Distinguished Service Award from the Denver Regional Council of Governments in 2002
Can be contacted at 303-223-1191 or rsandquist@bhfs.com