[MidGe]

Property rights are really a fantasy.

There is a current debate in this country (Australia) about whether the states or federal government should take control of a a major waterway system (the Murray-Darling if you want to know). One state has resisted federal take-over. It is, of course the state that is at the end of the line of that particular waterway system.

This issue got me thinking about the silliness and simplification that AC always ( [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] ) bring to any issues. Does property rights extend below ground? How far below? Does is extend above ground, ie river systems? Does it extend to water that hasn't fallen yet as rain?

I am interested, although don't expect, about any intelligent AC reply as to what applies and how, or by what means, and under which philosophical or ideological argument, those rights should be enforced?