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Water Fights in US West Inspire New Judge Training
Officials in Colorado, Utah and Nevada are teaching judges how to handle the growing number cases over water rights.
Scott at the Matheson Courthouse in Salt Lake City.
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Water disputes have become so pervasive in Utah that the state Judicial Council established a new program last year that designates and trains judges to handle these cases.
“It was inspired by panic,” says Senior Judge Kate Appleby. She helped create the program, which taps district court judges to serve in this role. Appleby began dreaming it up when she got assigned in 2007 to a particularly unwieldy water case.