the right, sometimes limited, to use water from a stream, canal, etc. for some purpose, as irrigation
water right
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water right
noun
- often water rights The legal right to use water, especially bodies of water or sources of water adjacent to one's own property or on or from a property belonging to another.
- Nautical The right to navigate on particular waters.
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