We are an agricultural region in a desert climate, so water shares and rights are very important issues.  

We live in the desert so not an issue here. 

We're California.  We make other states share their water with us.

 Sorry Heather Zollinger here in Pennsylvania we don't have to deal with water shares & water rights.  Good luck.

I have never heard of this before...and not really sure what  it means... water shares and water rights.... In my area if you live in the city, there is municipal water to every home, and the home owner pays for the water they use.  If the property is in the country there is usually a well..

No problems in 26 years.

Believe this is area specific.  We don't deal with any issues in SE Wisconsin -- we are located right off Lake Michigan.

I've never had to deal with water right issues.....

I have not seen another other than living in drought state of emergency for many years in California. 

Making sure that the water use continues with the sale. 

Oooh, I think this is a very state specific question.  Our state laws for water rights and shares are very thorough and a big deal here but I imagine they are very different in other states.

Great answers. 

Not... I'm not a lawyer/

Chapter 12, Water Rights and Real Estate

Irrigation water is very important in my area and very tricky to deal with. You have to research those water rights and make sure you have it all correct. 

In the city of Dallas none.

none here

None.

none

We do not face those issues in our urban market.

have not seen any

Malibu homeowners ( Billionaires' Beach) who live right next to the water, the front raw, do not really own that beach in front of their houses.

The beach here is for everyone, and it does not matter how much money you have...

Heather Zollinger  - wish I had done any transactions with water rights and water share.

Ripirian rights here in Florida regarding docks over state owned waters.  

HI Heather, In 37 years of real estate business I have never had any problems dealing with water shares and water rights. My best advice is don't expect trouble.

We have all new state forms that cover and protect both parties...

No big problems, but the dnr does think they have a right to all of our water.

Prior to a Washington State Supreme Court ruling last year, our property owners pretty much had a guaranteed right to be able to water their yard and garden, up to about an acre in size from a well.  The State DEQ passed a regulation limiting new wells in a watershed if the usage might impact stream-flow and the ability of migratory fish to reproduce.  This may make many rural Legal Lots worth far less.  There may even be lots with existing, but as yet un-used wells, and these may be denied building permits as well.  Seems a bit tyrannical when a property owner draws water out of the ground for residential use in a rural area, and most of that water will go right back into the ground. 

None in my area.

None..I haven't dealt with those issues in our area..sorry.

      Florida is a riparian rights state.  Unless you own a huge agricultural conglomerate (orange groves, sugar cane plantation) where you have to deal with a State DEP Water Management District, it is pretty much a non-issue.

I've never had any issues in any of my sales in North or South Carolina!

Suggest to look here or google it..... Thanks

I've never had to deal with them in my area here in SoCal

People tend to show their possessive side when owning shares & those that don't own show their ambitious sides to obtain. The stewards of it all remain haughty were my observations when first introduced to all this

Heather Zollinger No water right issues here.

Here in Chicago, we turn the faucet and get great Lake Michigan water without a thought!

Heather,

Each state differs.  

It seems that most of the concerns about this issue only seem to arise from many AR members in one state in the USA.  None, or extremely few, of the commentators I have seen over a long period of time have seen this issue elsewhere in the USA or Canada.