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Idaho water rights legal matters

Number of IDWR legal matters of each type, as of the retrieval date. A snapshot, not an annual series.

Change and comparison

District Court is the largest category at 93; Administrative is next at 54.

Matters by type

Number of IDWR legal matters of each type, as of the retrieval date. A snapshot, not an annual series.

  1. District Court93
  2. Administrative54
  3. Mitigation Plan48
  4. Supreme Court22
  5. Delivery Call19
  6. Settlements7

Source: Idaho Department of Water Resources, IDWR Legal Matters: Delivery Calls, Mitigation Plans, and Court Cases. Data period 2026.

Data table (6 rows)
Type2026 (count)
District Court93
Administrative54
Mitigation Plan48
Supreme Court22
Delivery Call19
Settlements7

Source

Organization
Idaho Department of Water Resources
Dataset
IDWR Legal Matters: Delivery Calls, Mitigation Plans, and Court Cases
Geography
Idaho
Time coverage
1940-2026 (filing dates); matter status as of 2026-09-08
Update frequency
Continuous; IDWR updates each matter's page as filings occur
Published
not stated
Original file
https://idwr.idaho.gov/legal-actions/
Methodology
https://idwr.idaho.gov/legal-matters/archived-matters/
License
Idaho public record.
Our copy
IDWR Legal Matters: Delivery Calls, Mitigation Plans, and Court Cases, built by scripts/fetch-idwr-legal-matters.py

Caveats

  • Status is the IDWR index (active or archived) the matter appeared on at the retrieval date, not its posture today.
  • Two published filing dates are typos (December 3, 2104, and October 27, 2105, on case CV-2015-1687); both are excluded from filing dates and counts.

Cite

Cite this page as Understand Idaho, “Idaho water rights legal matters”, https://understandidaho.com/water/legal-matters/, retrieved on the date you read it, and the publisher named above for the figures themselves. The dataset behind it is described in the data catalog.

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