Add to ORKGUtah’s limited water resources are essentially fully appropriated. Consequently, new development must acquire existing water rights (primarily from current uses in irrigated agriculture) and transfer or convert them to domestic and municipal use. Generally, water has been available for purchase and conversion, enabling development to move forward at a frantic pace. On an intrastate basis, marketplace reallocations have worked relatively well. Willing buyers have found willing sellers. They make their economic deals, and the water has freely transferred to the new use. Unfortunately, the development pressure will not abate. Utah’s population will double over the next thirty years or so, and these new residents will need drinking water, food,...