Peter Burgess
New member
I can point you to a court judgement made in 1810 whereby a landowner had to pay compensation to a mill owner because he diverted the flow of water that once fed his mill, by driving a drainage adit for his quarry into the strata that fed the spring that kept the mill turning. I suspect there would have to be some adverse effect on a third party's financial circumstances for a civil judgement to be made against the person interfering with the water.