{"data":{"id":"us-nh/rsa-498-6","jurisdiction":"us-nh","citation":"RSA 498:6","heading":"Water Rights.","body":"Any legal right, public or private, infringed by a change in the water level of a natural lake or pond, or by the casting or dropping into a watercourse of sawdust or other waste of a saw or lumber mill or any other material, and the water rights of riparian proprietors on a stream may be ascertained and enforced in a constitutional manner on a bill in equity without prior ascertainment of the right by an action at law; and rights of boating, fishing and navigation may be enforced on a bill in equity brought by the attorney general in the name of the state.","path":["Title LI: COURTS","Chapter 498: EQUITY POWERS AND PROCEEDINGS"],"source_url":"https://gc.nh.gov/rsa/html/LI/498/498-6.htm","current_through":"2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T16:45:13Z","sha256":"cab5baa88776da2b4976d9ee87e9339d10819247e7285fabdf5a51bdf4b978ed","source_id":"us-nh","stale":false,"prev":"us-nh/rsa-498-5-e","next":"us-nh/rsa-498-7"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}