Then & Now: The Public Trust Doctrine

Originally published in Journal of Water, Winter 2019

Water resource issues are inherently long-term. In Then & Now, JOW periodically looks back at major issues and compares the analyses, assessments and predictions made in Water Strategist (“WS”) with the state of the issue today. In this installment, JOW looks at the public trust doctrine.

In April 1987, WS explored the development of the public trust doc…