Legal Expert on Water Law

Harrison "Hap" Dunning, a professor emeritus of law, can comment to the media on public rights to water resources, the doctrine of public trust, and instream flows. He is author of the public rights portion of the leading national treatise on water law, "Waters and Water Rights," and he has written numerous articles on water law, particularly with regard to the public-trust doctrine. He is a member of the boards of directors of the Water Education Foundation and the Bay Institute of San Francisco. Dunning says a lot of California's water infrastructure was planned and built between the 1920s and 1940s with very little attention paid to environmental consequences. "Today our values are quite different," he said. "There's much more attention to the environmental consequences of water projects. So a lot of today's struggle is trying to recalibrate the system to take account of today's environmental values." Contact:

Harrison "Hap" Dunning, School of Law, (530) 756-7244, or cell (530) 979-1600, [email protected].

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