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AbstractUnder existing court decisions can the public protect itself against exploitation if valuable water rights are transferred to private hands?

Jane Richardson L. M. Hanks, Jr.University of Illinois

Regulates the use of water in the Country. Book III, Title I, Chapter I talks about the use and exploitation of hydroelectric energy.

AbstractThe Metropolitan Water District comprising Los Angela and thirteen other cities is going 300 miles to the Colorado River for more water.

AbstractElectric power is rapidly becoming the dominant force in our industrial civilization. Its importance in the factory and home in the city and in the country daily becomes greater adn greater. An important though admittedly not the most important portionof future power development valuable water power in its St. Lawrence and Niagara Rivers adn its inland streamsDespite the extent of this untapped wealth New York did not evolve a power policy until 1921. Even now it cannot be said to have settled upon a method of development adn exloitationThis is due to the fact that the two dominant paities hav been at logger heads with reference to this problem. Present indications point to a determination on the part o both to substitute action for words, and in such a situation a brief resume of hte fundamental positions of each may have some value. Space does not allow the description of the efforts of commissions prior to 1921. We lead you directly to the Water Power Act of 1921 which represents the Republican position, and which has been teh policy adopted by the legislature o he state, but which has been nullified by the attitude of Democratic commissions charged with its administration