Posted 2/21/2017 22:09 (#5855258 - in reply to #5854612) Subject: RE: Question About Irrigation Along the Rio Grande
I can't tell you about Mexico or the Rio Grand, but in California there are long narrow properties and long narrow fields sometimes along the rivers due to retaining water rights.
Once a parcel is subdivided from the river it no longer has a riparian right to use that river water and must rely on a license to appropriate that water that usually has a later date if you can get one.