right to use water

Agriculture Is Top Industry Ranching and farming comprise the state's largest industry, and in past drought years its right to use water was not challenged.

AJ Smit, KC, argued that the subject-matter of the application was not a claim nor a dispute with regard to the right to use water.

This 'water regale' or 'right to use water' was part of the overall Bergfreiheit or mining rights that were valid in Lower Saxony until the 1960s.