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Property rights in water have similar challenges. Like the wild animals, the pool ‎water that is adjacent to two property owners can be movable. Similarly, there is also ‎the groundwater that lies beneath the surface. “Groundwater is water located beneath the ‎ground surface in soil pore and fracture of rock formations” (The Economist). The water ‎under the private land belongs to the owner of the surface unless the land is owned ‎under split state. The surface owner has the right to extract and use the water that lies ‎beneath its private lands. The neighbor of this person has similar right of use and ‎benefit from the water under their land. One of these two neighbors drill deep on his or ‎her land and extract water for personal use. The problem here is, as a moving wild ‎animal, water can flow toward underneath of the land who drilled first emptying of the ‎subsoil of the adjacent. Water in the pool on surface or in underground might move with ‎or without outside interference. The movement can be on its own discretion or might be ‎caused by the interference of human action. Water ...

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