In re General Adjudication of all Rights to use Water in the Gila River System & Source

OPINION

PELANDER, Justice.

¶ 1 The State of Arizona filed an interlocutory appeal from an order issued in the general stream adjudications of the Gila River System and Source and the Little Colorado River System and Source. At issue is whether federal water rights were impliedly reserved on lands granted by the United States government to the State of Arizona to support education and other public institutions (“State Trust Lands”). We accepted review and now affirm the superior court’s ruling that there are no implied federal reserved water rights for State Trust Lands.

I. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

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