William E. Cox

TL;DR: The city of Virginia Beach, Va. completed an interbasin transfer from Lake Gaston on the Roanoke River for municipal water supply in 1998 after years of controversy as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: An overview of legal principles controlling water resources use and development is provided in this paper, with a focus on water management problems and dissatisfactions with water law which likely will result in continuing change.

TL;DR: Water law typically evolves through several stages in response to changing demands as discussed by the authors, and changes are likely to result in reallocation among different interests that compete for water resources, which favors certain uses over others based on the prevailing values during its formative period.

TL;DR: The riparian doctrine, a primary component of the water law of several eastern states, offers some protection to instream uses since it offers protection to riparian land values and requires a sharing of water among landowners along the length of each stream.

TL;DR: A substantial body of law to control land development activities that increase erosion and sedimentation has evolved as mentioned in this paper, including specially adapted water law doctrines; theories of tort liability traditionally applied to activities that unreasonably interfere with the use and enjoyment of property; and several types of governmental control programs, including agriculturally oriented soil and water conservation programs, surface mining regulations, controls over construction activities, and water pollution controls.