1. Water Law

2. Water as boundary Navigable water as boundary
Non-navigable water as boundary
Enclosed water at a boundary

3. Navigable water as a boundary
Navigable is defined as capable of having “one person in one boat” travel on the water both along the length of the water and to and from the breadth of the water. Navigable water as boundary occurs when the water serves as a boundary between different property owners on opposing sides of the water.

4. Navigable water as a boundary

5. The water is navigable through the length and across the breadth.

6. The water is navigable through the length and across the breadth.

7. Each of the title holders of the properties owns to the low water mark.

8. Neither title holder owns the water, though both may reasonable use the water as long as the water is not depleted nor diverted.

9. Neither title holder owns the riverbed
Neither title holder owns the riverbed. Neither of the title owners may impede the free flow of travel on any portion of the water.

10. Non-navigable Water as boundary
Neither title holder owns the water nor may either divert or deplete the water.
Both may make reasonable use of the water
Each of the title holders own all of the land including the riverbed to the center of the water.

11. Non-navigable water as boundary

12. Neither title holder owns the water nor may the water be depleted or diverted.

13. Both title holders may make reasonable use of the water.

14. Each title holder owns the land to the center of the riverbed at all points along the water.

15. If the title holder to the land on BOTH sides of the water is one person or entity, then that title holder owns ALL of the riverbed.

16. Enclosed Water
Enclosed water occurs where the water is completely self-contained on the land of a single title holder. This means there are no creeks or rivers running to and from.
In this instance, the title holder owns the water and the land underneath the water.

17. Enclosed water

18. Ariel map of ___________ water.

19. Who owns the water here?

20. Who owns the riverbed?

21. Navigable or nonnavigable?

22. What classification of water?

23. Who owns the riverbed?

24. Where are the property boundaries?

29. What if the water source is an underground spring?

30. The Mighty Mississippi