water right

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noun

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

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Origin of water right

An Americanism dating back to 1785–95

Words nearby water right

water rat, water rate, water-repellent, water-resistant, water rice, water right, Waters, water sapphire, watersaver, waterscape, waterscorpion

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How to use water right in a sentence

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|Time
In 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 News
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.
40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast.|by Abrahm Lustgarten|August 27, 2021|ProPublica
There 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-Science

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.
How to Vote for the Environment This Year|Heather Hansman|October 27, 2020|Outside Online
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|DAILY BEAST
Only 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 Hamilton
Dead ground; defiladed from inland batteries; deep water right close to the shore!
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
It is bad to go into the water right after eatin, said Perk.
Letty and the Twins|Helen Sherman Griffith
It seems a pity to let them wilt, when you can put them in water right here.
Miss Billy's Decision|Eleanor H. Porter
The 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

water right

noun

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

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