[ben509]

> If rivers have rights does it also has responsibility and culpability?

I think that question is key to understanding what rights are and how they function in the constitution of a polity.

Animals, rivers, etc. don't interact with us in the way other humans do. There may be analogous aspects to that interaction, so we can recognize that we have a responsibility to keep rivers clean, but that's an obligation on our part, not a "right" that the river has.