There is no life without water — therefore access to water might be considered a human right. However, that has not always been the case in American water law. A new book explores of case laws and evolving concepts in how water is governed, encompassing topics such as climate change, tribal rights and technologies for accessing water in areas where it is rapidly disappearing. “Water Law: Concepts and Insights, 2nd Edition” was co-written by Robin Kundis Craig, Robert A. Schroeder Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Kansas; Noah Hall of Wayne State University and Robert Adler of the University of Utah. “We were lamenting how there were no good water law books for students in the east. They were primarily focused geographically on the west, so we decided to write our own,” Craig said. “We wanted to get into how water law intersects with common and environmental law. It’s not strictly a case book, but we updated it, largely for human rights focus that has been added for water.”