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    riparian right

    Maven May 10, 2020 0 47
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    A riparian water right comes with the ownership of land adjacent to a water source wherein owners of land adjacent to a stream have the right to make reasonable use of a correlative share of the natural flow stream. These rights are senior to most appropriative rights.

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    Chris Austin, otherwise known as Maven, has been publishing Maven's Notebook since 2013 and has been aggregating California water news since 2007.
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