[Paladin2]

"It's not a tyranny. "

It's apparently a tyranny going all the way back to the initial application of European hegemony at the beginning of honkie exploration of the Americas.

[muawiyah]

The question of who has a right to the water extends back much further than your relatives arriving and upsetting the rightful owners. They had their own water rights laws and customs.

Everybody on Earth follows some sort of standard ~ in the United States we follow BOTH the big ones. That's cause were' HUGE.

[muawiyah]

In this area the Iroquois imposed a rule on the tributary tribes to the effect that they, the Iroquois owned any land bordering any other tribe's claim a full arrow flight's distance from their far side of the creek!

That gave the Iroquis total possession of the creek, it's tributaries, and all the water drinking game animals on the other side.

They may have done it differently in the core area of New York where they had to deal only with other Confederation members and their slaves.

BTW, that gave them exclusive control of the water rights.