Maggie's Farm

However, as a riparian owner you do have the right to a "reasonable use" of the water flowing through your land. Reasonable meaning that what you do doesn't interfere with any downstream user. Generally, this means household and agricultural use, including irrigation. Once upon a time, you could dam the stream for water power and storage.

Riparian rights were personal, and any aggrieved person had to sue in court on his own penny to get relief. The earler industrialists in England often discharged wastes (especially tanning and dying wastes) to streams destroying downstream riparian rights. Over time this lead to our EPA.

Riparian rights are wet climate rights and exist everywhere east of the Mississippi. The Mississippi is the great climate divide, and west of the river Spanish appropriation doctrine prevails. Under that law you have no right to the water flowing through your land unless you have been granted or purchased a limited right to it.

However, as a riparian owner you do have the right to a "reasonable use" of the water flowing through your land. Reasonable meaning that what you do doesn't interfere with any downstream user. Generally, this means household and agricultural use, including irrigation. Once upon a time, you could dam the stream for water power and storage.

Riparian rights were personal, and any aggrieved person had to sue in court on his own penny to get relief. The earler industrialists in England often discharged wastes (especially tanning and dying wastes) to streams destroying downstream riparian rights. Over time this lead to our EPA.

Riparian rights are wet climate rights and exist everywhere east of the Mississippi. The Mississippi is the great climate divide, and west of the river Spanish appropriation doctrine prevails. Under that law you have no right to the water flowing through your land unless you have been granted or purchased a limited right to it.

PS. All wildlife is owned by the Sovereign. You likely need a license to hunt fish in Texas, too.