water right
the right to make use of the water from a particular stream, lake, or irrigation canal.
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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.
The Leftist Millennial Who Could Lead One of Latin America's Wealthiest and Most Unequal Countries | Ciara Nugent | November 19, 2021 | TimeIn some parts of the Sacramento Valley, depending on water rights, he says, farmers received no water this season.
Rice feeds half the world. Climate change’s droughts and floods put it at risk | Nikk Ogasa | September 24, 2021 | Science NewsChanges 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.
40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast. | by Abrahm Lustgarten | August 27, 2021 | ProPublicaThere are more water rights on paper than there is water in the river.
Why we all have to heed the Colorado River water cuts | Purbita Saha | August 19, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThere 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.
Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview | Alex Belth | February 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOnly the petrol tins they took for water right and left of their pathway up the cliff; huge diamonds in the evening sun.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonDead ground; defiladed from inland batteries; deep water right close to the shore!
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonIt is bad to go into the water right after eatin, said Perk.
Letty and the Twins | Helen Sherman GriffithIt seems a pity to let them wilt, when you can put them in water right here.
Miss Billy's Decision | Eleanor H. PorterThe moon was just coming up out of the east, making a silver path across the water right up to the Ark.
The Cruise of the Noah's Ark | David Cory
British Dictionary definitions for water right
the right to make use of a water supply, as for irrigation
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