riparian rights
- Permissions that landowners with property alongside a river or stream have to use the water in specific ways, provided that their usage does not disrupt downstream riparian landowners by blocking or diverting the water flow
- His riparian rights allow him to create a dock on the river.
- The farmer relied on her riparian rights for irrigation.
- Their riparian rights were put into question because the water diversion changed the river's flow for properties downstream.
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