A Guide to Wyoming Water Law Reduces Confusion

Many longtime Lander landowners are starting to subdivide their land, move away, or pass away. In previous generations, these landowners often passed down knowledge about their water rights, but the new families are moving onto the land don’t always receive that generational knowledge. The lack of knowledge is causing confusion and sometimes tension. The Popo Agie Conservation District  (PACD), who works very closely with the Healthy Rivers Initiative (HRI), along with the University of Wyoming Law Department want to help ease the confusion with an irrigation guide—available online and with a few copies in print—to help guide and educate Lander landowners about state water laws. They just needed a little help to get it going. LOR’s funding will help cover the professional fees required to produce the guide, as well as some marketing costs.