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.
Source: Idaho Department of Water Resources, IDWR Legal Matters: Delivery Calls, Mitigation Plans, and Court Cases. Data period 2026.
Data table (6 rows)
| Type | 2026 (count) |
|---|---|
| District Court | 93 |
| Administrative | 54 |
| Mitigation Plan | 48 |
| Supreme Court | 22 |
| Delivery Call | 19 |
| Settlements | 7 |
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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