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water right

noun

  1. the right to make use of the water from a particular stream, lake, or irrigation canal.


water right

noun

  1. the right to make use of a water supply, as for irrigation


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Word History and Origins

Origin of water right1

An Americanism dating back to 1785–95

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Example Sentences

Boric has embraced positions, such as making currently privately-held water rights a public or common resource, which previous leftist governments in Chile have shied away from.

From Time

In some parts of the Sacramento Valley, depending on water rights, he says, farmers received no water this season.

Changes in the laws that remove the threat of penalties for not exercising water rights, or that expand rewards for ranchers who conserve water, could be an easy remedy.

There are more water rights on paper than there is water in the river.

There are also down-ticket races—from congressional battles to ballot measures—that will have wide-ranging impact on wildlife, water rights, renewable resources, and more.

Six hundred feet below is water—right—and Jews on both sides.

Only the petrol tins they took for water right and left of their pathway up the cliff; huge diamonds in the evening sun.

Dead ground; defiladed from inland batteries; deep water right close to the shore!

It is bad to go into the water right after eatin, said Perk.

It seems a pity to let them wilt, when you can put them in water right here.

The moon was just coming up out of the east, making a silver path across the water right up to the Ark.

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