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Property Owners Clean Up. (Science And Environment).(Brief Article)
Property Owners Clean Up Roger Bate, Saving Our Streams: The Role of the Anglers' Conservation Association in Protecting English and Welsh Rivers. Institute of Economic Affairs, 2 Lord North Street, London SW1P 3LB, England
What's the best way to fight polluters? Environmentalists often call for stringent government regulation. But Bate, of the Institute for Economic Affairs Environment Unit, thinks that private groups do a better job He cites 4 the efforts of the Anglers' Conservation Association (ACA) in using property rights to fight water polluters.
The ACA was founded in 1948 by lawyer John Eastwood. Under British common law, owners of river banks have "riparian rights": While they don't own a river, they can take a reasonable amount of water out of streams that flow through their land, as long as they return clean water. Owners of downstream property can sue polluters for water damages caused by any pollution.
Since anglers and angling clubs often leased fishing rights from landowners, Eastwood realized that if they united, they could sue polluters and force them to clean up the messes they caused. Between 1946 and 1948, Eastwood sent out three thousand letters to angling ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Property Owners Clean Up. (Science And Environment).(Brief Article)