“When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.”
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Communities, governments, businesses, conservationists, and indigenous peoples often compete for their share of one precious resource – water. With extensive experience in water-related disputes, CDR can help you resolve issues surrounding allocation, quality, use, and management of water.
Whether you’re struggling with how to operate a reservoir to meet agricultural and riparian needs, coordinating groundwater storage among metropolitan areas, or forming interjurisdictional water agreements, CDR can assist you in creating lasting, practical solutions.
We regularly intercede in issues such as:
- Negotiation of transboundary agreements
- Water planning and basin studies
- Coastal zone, bay, and estuary protection
- Surface and groundwater coordination and management
- Hydropower facility planning
- Water quality protection
- Assuring adequate water for federal land uses
- Floodplain management and control
- Water contract negotiations
