The plan are the following quotes

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Article 15; section 7, states that a state water resource agency shall be created by the legislature and gives the legislature primacy and oversight of this agency.

Article 15; section 3 states that any deprivation of water rights shall be subject to the takings provisions regulating the taking of private property under Article 1; section 14. Thus, the Constitution of the state grants equal footing between water rights and property rights.

The current state water plan (1996) still phone number list recognizes the constitutional authority and those provisions mentioned above. Under the plan, the water board has certain programs and duties enumerated, none of which are at the sole discretion of the director, and none of which are arbitrary.



“It is the policy of Idaho that the state has sovereignty over decisions affecting the development and use of its water resources, and that the state opposes any attempt by the federal government, its management agencies, any other state, or any other entity to usurp the state's role in these areas.”

“The state's position on existing and proposed federal policies and actions should be coordinated by the water board to ensure the state retains its traditional right to control the water resources of the state.”