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The article reports on the acquisition of the necessary water rights for the Mount Hope molybdenum project by Lakewood, Colorado-based General Moly Inc. in January 2008. The company expects the Mount Hope facilities to be supplied with 7,000 gallons of water per minute by a well field. The flotation process for molybdenum recovery will use the water. The well-field testing conducted by General Moly is set to be completed at the end of the first quarter.

Deals with the efforts of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to calculate water rights claims on the Flathead Reservation despite the fact that negotiations with the state have been stalled since December 2002. Comments by Chris Tweeten, chairman of the Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission, about the negotiation process; Task of the Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission; Concerns expressed by real estate brokers on the issue.

Focuses on a water rights lawsuit in New Mexico. Concerns of non-Indian water users over a proposal to settle the lawsuit; Terms under a conceptual proposal announced on June 1, 2005; Reaction of the federal government to an earlier settlement proposal.

Focuses on the disputes over water supply and water rights among U.S. Eastern states. Reliance of Alabama, Florida and Georgia on the riparian doctrine of water use in their dispute over water in the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint river system; Enactment of the Senate Bill 163 by West Virginia to address the water supply problem; Overview of the bill; Opposition of industries in West Virginia to the bill prior to the assurance given by Senator John Pat Fanning that the bill only intends to manage the state's water resources.

Focuses on a court case which dealt with the riparian rights of a person owning land that borders a stream or body of water. Background on the properties of the plaintiff and the defendant.

Opinion. Discusses the implications of the Riparian Management Areas Ordinance on private property rights in Chelan County, Washington. Planning Commission's drafting of the document to determine what people can and can not do with their waterfront property; Introduction of setbacks, management zones and restricted uses and areas; Commissioners' power to increase the impacts on private property rights.

This section offers news briefs related to engineering projects in the U.S. The U.S. Supreme Court has heard oral arguments over whether Delaware can block a $700-million liquefied natural-gas import terminal from being built off a pier on New Jersey's side of the Delaware River. The two states have been debating "riparian jurisdiction" since Colonial times. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will temporarily abandon efforts to enforce its regulation cracking down on employers who systematically hire illegal immigrants.

Reports on the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court giving Fairfax County Virginia the right to withdraw water from the Potomac River and to build a pipe extending into the river without interference from Maryland as of December 2003. Length of pipe to be used by Virginia to withdraw water from the Potomac River; Statements from Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on the sovereign riparian right of Virginia to build improvements on its shore; Details of the 1877 arbitration award.