Klamath water diversion to farming 'unlawful'

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1. Pacta sunt servanda

Tribes in the Klamath Basin have federal water rights for lands that tribes have occupied since time immemorial that are accorded a priority date of time immemorial and are known as aboriginal water rights. United States v. Klamath & Moadoc Tribes, 304 U.S. 119 (1938); United States v. Adair, 723 F.

Irrigators' competing claims to surface water in the Klamath River Basin, as against the tribes aboriginal and vested treaty rights, is determined by the Klamath River Basin Adjudication.

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