{"title":"Water Rights","authors":"Margaret Allison Roberts","doi":"10.4135/9781604265767.n686","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Overview: Riparian rightssimilarity to England Appropriative rights-Westlast half of 19 th century system -first come, first served -use it or lose it Historicallyoriented towards flow, rather than volume Allows selling out a water basin, such as Owens Valley or Mono Lake, while impossible under riparian. Natural water is not being “ beneficially used”similar to old notions of “conservation” and “reclamation”.","PeriodicalId":444009,"journal":{"name":"Using and Conquering the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"19","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Using and Conquering the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781604265767.n686","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Overview: Riparian rightssimilarity to England Appropriative rights-Westlast half of 19 th century system -first come, first served -use it or lose it Historicallyoriented towards flow, rather than volume Allows selling out a water basin, such as Owens Valley or Mono Lake, while impossible under riparian. Natural water is not being “ beneficially used”similar to old notions of “conservation” and “reclamation”.