OPINION: OMB Should Stop Meddling With Tribal Water Pacts

Law360, New York (September 7, 2016, 5:22 PM EDT) -- How is it that the original owners of a vast continent are now denied access to water for the small amount of land they reserved? And why is it that when water rights for Indian tribes are recognized it is often only after protracted and expensive litigation? The Obama administration has a very positive record on Native American issues, but recent actions by the president's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) threaten to tarnish that reputation and cause long-term harm to efforts to obtain reliable supplies of water to reservation homelands....

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