Most eastern states follow what is known as the riparian doctrine, which limits water use to the owner of the land adjacent to the water. Water rights give landowners access to bodies of water ...

Our doctrine of appropriative and riparian water rights was enacted in the early 1850s and is literally about who has the right to use river water in California. Whomever claims water for a ...

They share a common riparian boundary ... or the damage to the land by reason of the interference with the water rights. Vallely argued that the value of her unobstructed riparian rights is ...

More curtailments have recently been announced. Even those with older, riparian water rights. Riparian rights are defined as certain submerged bottoms subject to private ownership on land ...

About 35 years ago, Congress created a federal conservation area along the San Pedro River to protect one of the most important riparian areas in the Southwest. The designation entitled the 40 ...

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The water right is for “protection of the riparian area and the aquatic, wildlife, archeological, paleontological, scientific, cultural, educational and recreation resources” of the ...

A fence that runs across the sand and into the water at a Constance Bay beach colloquially known as The Point has some questioning whether waterfront property owners have the legal right to ...

Riparian rights are the rights of waterfront property owners with regards to water, such as the right of access to the water. The case involved a dispute over whether Arturo Matus, the owner of a ...