Irrigation is usually considered an extraordinary use. The riparian owner may use the water of a stream for irrigation provided diversion is not continuous, and the water is returned with no greater diminution than that caused by evaporation and absorption attendant on the irrigation. If water is diverted for irrigation and delays the passage of the water so as to infringe the rights of lower riparian owners, an action for damages is available.<\/p>\n
Where a right to irrigation exists, it does not matter what means are taken to transfer the water onto the irrigated land provided no more than the lawful quantity is diverted. The common law does not recognise ordinary or extraordinary rights to take water for spray irrigation where the water is not returned to the watercourse.<\/p>\n
The taking of water for irrigation may be subject to statutory provisions.<\/p>\n\n
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Natural\u00a0 Rights Riparian rights are natural rights that attach to land. Natural rights are attached to all land automatically. They arise automatically as part of the rights that go with ownership. The riparian rights in relation to a natural river or stream attach to the adjoining owner\u2019s title to land. That owner is the riparian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19123"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31458,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19123\/revisions\/31458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}