Utah Water Rights

World's Best Investment

Utah water rights are the best investment in the world. With unprecedented population growth and unpredictable climate change – water will be scarce. Orange juice will go out of fashion – water will not. Water is life.

DUE DILIGENCE

Knowledge is the essential first step to any water rights transaction.

IMMEDIATE RESPONSE

Personalized attention keeps you in the loop and avoids delayed transactions.

PROTECTION

Complex regulatory systems and changing laws can strip value from water rights.

ADJUDICATION

We provide representation in this vast legal action by the State of Utah to determine which water rights are valid.

UTAH WATER RIGHTS

WATER RIGHT ESSENTIALS

Utah water rights are the best investment in the world. With unprecedented population growth and unpredictable climate change – water will be scarce. Orange juice will go out of fashion – water will not. Water is life.

LIMITATION

Mother Nature is not your only limitation. Water rights are defined by their beneficial use and may be subject to flow limitations, supplemental rights and seasonal restrictions.

DIVERSION

Your groundwater or surface source is under constant threat by other water withdrawals, administrative actions, change applications and legal proceedings.

BENEFICIAL USE

Beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure and the limit of all rights to the use of water in this state. How your beneficial use is evaluated is critical to the scope of your right to use water.

ADMINISTRATION

The Utah State Engineer diligently administers water rights with a skilled team of professionals who govern and monitor the transfer, challenges, beneficial use and changes requested in water rights.

PRIORITY

“First in time is first in right.” As a prior appropriation state, Utah water rights and allocated by priority of beneficial use, so the first person to beneficially use water can establish rights senior to subsequent users.

TITLE

Overlooked for years, clear title is essential to any transaction, protection and defense of water.

LIMITATIONS

Mother Nature is not your only limitation. Water rights are defined by their beneficial use and may be subject to flow limitations, supplemental rights and seasonal restrictions.

DIVERSION

Your groundwater or surface source is under constant threat by other water withdrawals, administrative actions, change applications and legal proceedings.

BENEFICIAL USE

Beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure and the limit of all rights to the use of water in this state. How your beneficial use is evaluated is critical to the scope of your right to use water.

ADMINISTRATION

The Utah State Engineer diligently administers water rights with a skilled team of professionals who govern and monitor the transfer, challenges, beneficial use and changes requested in water rights.

TITLE

Overlooked for years, clear title is essential to any transaction, protection and defense of water.

Benefits Title One

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Learn more about water right in your area

Speak with a Water Rights Specialist

Learn more about water right in your area

Speak with a Water Rights Specialist

Your Water Rights

Water Conservation

Is it possible to preserve your water rights while supporting conservation or the environment? Utah State regulators are hopeful that instream flow legislation, concise record keeping and water banking programs will protect valuable private water rights while encouraging conservation. Although it seems the “USE IT OR LOSE IT” doctrine discourages conservation, we are helping clients wade through the regulation to benefit everyone’s future.

Are you ready for water banking legislation in 2020?

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If You Can't Use Your Water

What Good is the Right?

Changes to water rights have intensified and unless you track water right applications – you may have no idea if your water right is impaired. If you don’t timely protest, you cannot challenge an impairment. Do you know that the water you are purchasing can be diverted from the new well and used on the new location? With the value of water skyrocketing – trust a specialist to research your rights and monitor changes upstream.

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Your Water Rights

Do You Own Your Water?

For over 18 years I have updated title to water rights and water shares – often from the original appropriator. Unless you are recognized by the Utah Division of Water Rights as the record owner of the right, you will not receive legal notice about actions that may impair or entirely invalidate your rights.

I can discern who owns the right to water, whether there is potential impairment from an action or change and whether you could replace lost water rights. With extensive transaction experience, I have a feel for a market that is seldom publicly traded, so it lacks liquidity except in the literal sense.

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Protect Your Rights

Who can you trust to offer advise, research, analysis and defense of your rights? As a severely limited resource, water issues create conflict among water users, governmental officials and even professional advisors. As an independent water rights attorney, my allegiance is to my client and confidentiality is essential.
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