One of the most critical things in life that one may have to negotiate is water rights in a water court. Failure to properly negotiate water rights can cause future catastrophic issues for one's family or the future of their family businesses, lifestyles or endeavors. Often someone is called to negotiate their water rights and without the proper negotiation skills they can indeed blow generations of hard work in a single afternoon. In doing so they will cause future hardship.
When negotiating water rights it is important to first show a long-term timeline of the area in the most simplest of details; broken down year by year. Next it is important to show that the other party is not entitled to the water rights by breaking down their history of the water usage in the region year by year. Then it is important to show that the other party has failed to reach an honorable settlement in past negotiations.
Once these have been established then the real negotiation can begin. Failure to agree upon the historical background will later cloud the negotiation process and could hurt you and third-party rulings. Negotiating water rights in water courts or in arbitration or mediation is serious business and if you do not know what you are doing you can hire someone to do it for you. Please consider this in 2006.
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