1usually pluralThe 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 right
noun
1usually pluralThe 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.