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The 15 pages that link to Water rights, each with the reason it gives.

• Property rightsBroader topic: Water rights allocate a mobile resource whose availability changes across places and seasons.

• QanatRelated: Communities needed rules to divide qanat flows among users.

• Ogallala AquiferRelated: State water laws shape access to groundwater and responses to falling water levels.

• Water resource managementRelated: Rights shape which claims managers must recognize when supplies are limited.

• John Wesley PowellRelated: Powell’s watershed proposals challenged systems that allocated water without regard to river basins.

• Agriculture in IranRelated: Rules for allocating scarce water influence irrigation access among farms.

• American WestRelated: Scarcity made water allocation central to western agriculture, cities, and Indigenous claims.

• Water managementRelated: Rules over access determine how managed supplies are divided.

• Red River of the SouthRelated: Interstate disputes over the river have centered on who may use its water.

• Land lawRelated: Water claims often depend on land ownership, location, and jurisdiction.

• Acre-footRelated: Some water allocations and entitlements are quantified in acre-feet.

• Continental Divide of the AmericasRelated: Water crossing the divide’s neighboring basins is governed by distinct regional allocation systems.

• Irrigation in the United StatesRelated: Irrigation access depends on rules that vary among states and water basins.

• Land (property)Broader topic: Water access can be attached to, separated from, or regulated independently of land.

• MardalsfossenRelated: Water releases and diversions depend on decisions about permitted use.