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===History=== | ===History=== | ||
Water records date back to the time when the entire Southwest region of the continent was part of the Spanish Empire. It is to the Spanish or civil law system that Arizona inherited the doctrine of "prior appropriation" or "first in time, first in right." Here are several websites that review the history of water rights in Arizona: | |||
*[http://www.azwater.gov/AzDWR/PublicInformationOfficer/history.htm Arizona Department of Water Resources, History of Water Management in Arizona] | |||
*[http://www.cap-az.com/index.php/cap-history History of the Central Arizona Project] | |||
*[https://www.arizonawine.org/Docs/Layperson'sGuidetoArizonaWater.pdf Water Education Foundation and the University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center, Arizona Water] | |||
===Importance of Water Records=== | ===Importance of Water Records=== | ||