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DIVISION 2. WATER 1000-5976›PART 2. APPROPRIATION OF WATER 1200-1851›CHAPTER 1. General Provisions 1200-1248›ARTICLE 1. Water Subject to Appropriation 1200-1203

§ 1201

California Water Code · 2020-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

All water flowing in any natural channel, excepting so far as it has been or is being applied to useful and beneficial purposes upon, or in so far as it is or may be reasonably needed for useful and beneficial purposes upon lands riparian thereto, or otherwise appropriated, is hereby declared to be public water of the State and subject to appropriation in accordance with the provisions of this code.

(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

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