It probably says you can obtain water with the permission of the government's water authority for your own personal use or that of members of your household ~ but you can't pass it on to someone else who doesn't have a permit.
Like Oregon, or Colorado, or Texas, or New Mexico (as mentioned) you need a permit to even give it away ~ 'cause it's not really yours to give away, only to use.
Again, the first scene in Lawrence of Arabia has Omar Sharif shooting a couple of guys to death for giving his, Omar's water, away to their sheep!
Everyone in the Rub Al Khalid applauded the action ~ presumably shocking to Westerners who live in well watered environs.
Sounds like she was giving out bottled water. That’s something you buy from a store, rather than collecting it from your sink.
No, Western water rights have NOTHING to do with the interstate commerce of retail water bottles. When you buy a bottle of water sold at retail, that is a commodity you own and “Western water rights” have absolutely nothing to do with the regulation of bottles or crates or cases of bottled water. Nothing.
So even if you buy a bottle of water it’s not yours but the government’s?
What if you buy bottled water in a different state, that has no water rights law? Can that water actually be yours and not the government’s?
Does the government own everybody’s sweat and urine too, or could that be purified down for drinking purposes?