Charges for diversion of water imposed by the state of New Jersey on the Johns‐Manville Company were upheld by the court despite the company's contention that state law did not allow the state water authority to charge a riparian owner for the exercise of its common law right to divert water. The court ruled that the company did not own the water flowing past its property and that the fact that the company drew a certain volume of water from the river at one time did not confer on it any right to continue to do so.