The Oklahoma Water Resources Board (OWRB) voted in December 2011 to authorize its attorneys to file a suit or suits to determine water rights in Southeastern and Southern Oklahoma. On Feb. 10, 2012, the OWRB filed a stream adjudication suit, naming almost 200 water permit holders as respondents in that suit. The number of respondents is expected to increase dramatically
Oklahomans for Responsible Water Policy decries this move on the part of the water board. Such a suit will result in a decades-long, generational battle that will pit Oklahomans against Oklahomans and could cause thousands of Oklahomans to hire lawyers to protect private property rights we already have.
Read the Stigler News Sentinel story on that OWRB meeting here