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riparianism en · NOUN

Etymology

From riparian + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (US, uncountable) A doctrine of riparian rights, based on the principle that the owners of riparian land had the right to remove reasonable amounts of water from the river, but others did not.
    • The result was a string of decisions that further established riparianism as a rule of law. 1993, Mary Catherine Miller, Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West, →ISBN, page 180: