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• CORRELATIVE WATER RIGHTS
  
  A modern law in some states that holds that a riparian owner who has rights in a common water source is entitled to take only a reasonable amount of the total supply for the beneficial use of land (such as irragation). (See appropriative water rights, riparian rights)
  
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