Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Prior appropriation water rights is the legal doctrine that the first person to take a quantity of water from a water source for \"beneficial use\"—agricultural, industrial or household —has the right to continue to use that quantity of water for that purpose. Subsequent users can take the remaining water for their own beneficial use provided that they do not impinge on the rights of previous users.This doctrine developed in the western states of the United States."@en }
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- Prior-appropriation_water_rights comment "Prior appropriation water rights is the legal doctrine that the first person to take a quantity of water from a water source for \"beneficial use\"—agricultural, industrial or household —has the right to continue to use that quantity of water for that purpose. Subsequent users can take the remaining water for their own beneficial use provided that they do not impinge on the rights of previous users.This doctrine developed in the western states of the United States.".