Riparian Rights (1) Water rights based on the ownership of land bordering a river or waterway. (2) A concept of water law under which authorization to use water in a stream is based on ownership of the land adjacent to the stream and is normally not lost if not used. (3) The rights of the owners of lands on the banks of watercourses, relating to the water, its use, ownership of soil under the stream, accretion, etc. The term is generally defined as the right which every person through whose land a natural watercourse runs has to the benefit of the stream as it passes through his land for all useful purposes to which it may be applied. Such rights include those such as hunting, fishing, boating, sailing, irrigating, and growing and harvesting wild rice, which rights extend over lakes and wetlands. See Riparian Doctrine. Also see Riparian Water Rights.
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