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The [[Magpie River]] first Canadian river with legal rights.
The [[Magpie River]] first Canadian river with legal rights.


Rivers have rights through the same legal fiction as corporations having the rights of personhood. Link [[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/vanishing-midwest-ogallala-aquifer-drought]] [[Corporate legal personhood]]
Rivers have rights through the same legal fiction as corporations having the rights of personhood. Link [[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/vanishing-midwest-ogallala-aquifer-drought]]  
 
[[Corporate legal personhood]]


The midwest’s [[Ogalala Aquifer]] is running dry link [[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/vanishing-midwest-ogallala-aquifer-drought]]
The midwest’s [[Ogalala Aquifer]] is running dry link [[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/vanishing-midwest-ogallala-aquifer-drought]]

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Several tribes, including some large ones in the southeast are looking into being part of the movement of rivers having legal rights.

The Magpie River first Canadian river with legal rights.

Rivers have rights through the same legal fiction as corporations having the rights of personhood. Link [[1]]

Corporate legal personhood

The midwest’s Ogalala Aquifer is running dry link [[2]]

Negotiated rights on the Klammath River U.S. link to case study [[3]]

The rights of rivers and beavers in the UK

The seven states and the Climate rights of the Colorado link [[4]]

Link [[5]]


The Wanganui River in New Zealand link [[6]]

Federal judge strikes down Lake Erie ‘s bill of rights. Link [[7]

The Earth Law Center had made a declaration of River rights link [[8]]