Arizona Water Law, Rights and Regulations
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What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Webinar instructions will be emailed before the date of the webinar.
Please log into the webinar 15 – 30 minutes before the start time.
Thursday, June 27, 2024
9:00 am – 4:00 pm MST
Arizona Water Law Basics
Presented by: John Burnside
- Prior appropriation doctrine
- Reasonable use doctrine
- The law of subflow
- Federal reserved water rights
Arizona Water Rights/Water Regulation
Presented by: John Burnside
- Groundwater Management Act of 1980
- AMA water rights
- Assured and adequate water supply
- Current issues
Water Right Evaluations
Presented by: Fred Breedlove
- Determining validity/ownership
- Verifying historic use (beware of forfeiture)
- Inspect place of use / point of diversion
- Question potential seller
- ADWR records
- Land records
- Ariel photography
- Electrical records
Handling the Application, Lease, Transfer and Sale of Water
Presented by: Fred Breedlove
- Purchase/sale of water rights
- Modifications
- Leases
- Exchanges
- Transfers
- Negotiating and drafting agreements
Handling Water Rights Disputes: Adjudication Procedures and Litigation Tips
Presented by: R. Snow
- The adjudication process
- Ownership disputes
- Condemnation disputes
- Lease disputes
- Opposing an application for new water rights
- Modification disputes
- Easement disputes
Ethics and Water Law
Presented by: R. Snow
- Multiparty representation and ethical challenges
- Compliance issues, risks and ethics
Webinar Instructions
All attendees must log-on through their own email – attendees may not watch together if they wish to earn continuing education credit. HalfMoon Education Inc. must be able to prove attendance if either the attendee or HalfMoon Education Inc. is audited.
Certificates of completion can be downloaded in PDF form upon passing a short quiz. A link to the quiz will be sent to each qualifying attendee immediately after the webinar. The certificate can be downloaded from the Results page of the quiz upon scoring 80% or higher.
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Credits
Engineers
6.0 Hour Learning Opportunity
Geologists
6.0 Hour Learning Opportunity
Attorneys
6.0 CLE Hours (Incl. 1.0 Ethics Hour)
Floodplain Managers
6.0 ASFPM CECs
Continuing Education Credit Information
This webinar is open to the public and offers a 6.0-hour learning opportunity for professional engineers and geologists in Arizona. Arizona engineers and geologists are not subject to a continuing education requirements.
The State Bar of Arizona does not approve or accredit CLE activities for the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education requirement. This activity may qualify for up to 6.0 hours toward your annual CLE requirement for the State Bar of Arizona, including 1.0 hour(s) of ethics.
This Association of State Floodplain Managers has approved this course for 6.0 CECs for floodplain managers.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the webinar for those who attend the entire course and score a minimum 80% on the quiz that follows the course (multiple attempts allowed).
On-Demand Credits
The preceding credit information only applies to the live presentation. This course in an on-demand format is not pre-approved by any licensing boards and may not qualify for the same credits; please consult your licensing board(s) to ensure that a structured, asynchronous learning format is appropriate.
Speakers
Fred Breedlove
Of Counsel, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, in Phoenix, AZMr. Breedlove focuses his practice on water rights transactions and permitting, state and federal land permitting, mining, administrative law, and governmental relations. His experience includes a wide variety of water rights transactions (groundwater, surface water, and Colorado River entitlements), assured water supply permitting, consultation on compliance with active management area management plans, water rights due diligence and permitting, state land acquisition, and National Historic Preservation Act compliance. Mr. Breedlove has represented land developers, landowners, golf courses, ranchers, farmers, private water and energy utility businesses, government agencies, and private equity investment firms. He also served for five years as the legislative liaison for the Arizona Department of Water Resources, during which time he managed several bills that were enacted, including the 2007 Water Adequacy Amendments. Mr. Breedlove has experience with the Arizona legislative process, bill drafting, and government relations. He earned his B.S. degree from Western Washington University, his Master of Studies in Environmental Law from Vermont Law School and his J.D. degree from Vermont Law School.
John D. Burnside
Attorney at Snell & Wilmer, LLP, in Phoenix, AZMr. Burnside covers water rights and water quality as part of a broad-based environmental and natural resources law practice at Snell & Wilmer. Mr. Burnside regularly counsels and represents significant water interests in the State of Arizona, with a particular focus on mining and energy. He has extensive experience litigating contested water rights claims in Arizona’s Gila River General Stream Adjudication, including multiple arguments and trials before the Special Water Master. Mr. Burnside has in-depth experience with the complex legal and technical issues surrounding Arizona water rights at the intersection between groundwater and surface water.
Riley S. Snow
Attorney at Rose Law Group, in Scottsdale, AZMr. Snow represents clients in Arizona and Utah on matters related to water rights, real property, and resource development. He regularly appears before land and water agencies and in state and federal court. Mr. Snow’s clients include governmental entities, national and multi-national corporations, water companies, cooperatives, partnerships, and individuals. He has litigated numerous general adjudication claims in Arizona and Utah. Mr. Snow has also litigated quiet title, easement, right-of-way and condemnation claims in both states.
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