Water Rights Flashcards
1
Q
Who has title to water?
A
No one
2
Q
What are Riparian Water Rights?
A
Allows a property owner to use water from water source such as a river stream or creek.
3
Q
What are Littoral Water Rights?
A
Concern properties abutting an ocean, sea or lake rather than a river or stream.
4
Q
What is Correlative Use?
A
Allows a property owner the use of underground water or water form a river for irrigation purposes.
5
Q
What is Accretion?
A
When soil is deposited by the natural action of water and may increase the size of the property.
6
Q
What is Reliction?
A
Gradual change of water line on a real property which gives the owner more dry land.
7
Q
What is Erosion?
A
The wearing away of land and soil by the action of wind, water, currents or ice.
