waterpower

waterpower
The power existing in water by virtue of the fall of a stream, either in the natural state or the stream or as induced by a dam which impounds the water, applied to the use of man in turning the wheels of machines or in the generation of electricity. Rhodes v Whitehead, 27 Tex 304.

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