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40 NARF Legal Rev. 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/narf40 and id is 1 raw text is: Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians rights to groundwater recognized Introduction As California enters yet another year of an his- toric drought, the all-encompassing importance of the water resource is increasingly evident. The need for more responsible management of the resource has finally started to sink in - federal, state, and local policymakers are finally taking action to conserve water and to enact measures that protect the availability of the resource in an uncertain water future. Groundwater is perhaps the most critical water resource for California's water future. In an arid climate, surface waters are often available only seasonally and can be unreliable. Because of this, many big water users have opted to simply pump groundwater and have been doing so with little or no oversight for decades. This practice is being called into question throughout the state with the California State legislature passing new legisla- tion last year that initiates a groundwater regula- tory system, but it is incremental in execution and many fear that it's too little too late. For years, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians has expressed growing concern about the viability of the groundwater basin underlying its Reservation. Indeed, the Cahuilla people have long been the stewards of this resource. The Coachella Valley was populated by ancestral Cahuilla people prior to the arrival of Spanish and then other people. The Cahuilla people under- stood the groundwater resource and managed its use with knowledge gained through millennia of experience surviving in the arid desert. Today, the Agua Caliente continue working to protect the viability of the groundwater resource and ensure that it is managed responsibly. Indeed, VOLUME ~O, NO. 1 WINTERISPRING 2015 VOLUME 40, 111- 1

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