The CKST Water Compact gives the Indian Tribes the water rights to all surface and subsurface water in almost all of Western Montana, to include Flathead Lake. The problem: these water rights are all off-reservation. The Democratic-controlled State Senate, House of Representatives, and Governor of Montana voted into law a bill that would require everyone to have a water meter placed on their wells. All revenues will go to “the Tribes” as stipulated by HHS, to be managed by the Bureau of Indian affairs, and enforced by the DHS (Department of Homeland Security).
Senator Jon Tester, D-MT is the culprit pushing the Tribes to ratify the Montana Law at the Federal level.