In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. <I>Unsettled Waters</I> is the first detailed study of water adjudications in New Mexico. The state envisioned adjudication as a straightforward accounting of water rights as private property. However, adjudication resurfaced tensions and created conflicts among water sovereigns at multiple scales. Based on more than ten years of fieldwork, this book tells a fascinating story...
