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Definition of water right in US English: water rightnoun 1usually plural The right to make use of the water from a stream, lake, or irrigation canal. Example sentencesExamples - Extraordinarily, governments still have to define what a water right or entitlement really is.
- Water storages in the region are critically low, and general security irrigators on the Murray system have been allocated zero per cent of their water right.
- The other valley water users mounted a concerted attempt to challenge his original water right, hoping to unhinge government control of the river.
- Only when contending water users resorted to litigation would a judge file an adjudicated water right, one formally fixed by court decree and recorded in the county courthouse where the suit was decided.
- It will rethink the whole process whereby the farms have always had the security of a water right - until the Government came along, and said that it will turn that on its head.
- All this reform has led irrigators to question whether they actually own the water right at all.
- In December, he actually relinquished his water right so the federal government could take over the project.
2Nautical
The right to navigate on particular waters.
Definition of water right in US English: water rightnoun 1usually plural The right to make use of the water from a stream, lake, or irrigation canal. Example sentencesExamples - Water storages in the region are critically low, and general security irrigators on the Murray system have been allocated zero per cent of their water right.
- All this reform has led irrigators to question whether they actually own the water right at all.
- The other valley water users mounted a concerted attempt to challenge his original water right, hoping to unhinge government control of the river.
- In December, he actually relinquished his water right so the federal government could take over the project.
- Extraordinarily, governments still have to define what a water right or entitlement really is.
- Only when contending water users resorted to litigation would a judge file an adjudicated water right, one formally fixed by court decree and recorded in the county courthouse where the suit was decided.
- It will rethink the whole process whereby the farms have always had the security of a water right - until the Government came along, and said that it will turn that on its head.
2Nautical
The right to navigate on particular waters.
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