California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
Water Code - WAT |
Division 2. WATER |
Part 2. APPROPRIATION OF WATER |
Chapter 1. General Provisions |
ARTICLE 4. Beneficial Use |
Section 1242.
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The storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of such storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage was made.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)