Reading Material
For those of you that enjoy reading legal stuff you migth find the oral arguements between Kansas and Colorado before the US Supreme Court regarding the Arkansas River to be interesting. There are many simularities between the Arkansas and Republican cases. Kansas argued that Colorado should have to stay in compliance each year. Colorado argued that a 10 year average would be much better. The Supreme Court agreed with Colorado.
In the Nebraska/Kansas case, Nebraska ended up agreeing to a 5 year average in normal years and a two or three year average in dry years. Could Nebraska have got 10 years? Perhaps, but we will never know.