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.
what the heck is water rights?
by nobody else here May 28, 2017
A term referring to how golf courses do not seem to fall under the same restrictions as regular consumers who sometimes have little or no water pressure.
There will never be any impact on golf course water rights because the ultra-wealthy would have nowhere to go and nothing to do if their well manicured golf courses weren’t lush and began to turn a most unpopular brown.
by Dr Bunnygirl June 4, 2023